Compiled by: Maria Shah Edited by: Tehreem Jamil IDRACK is a non-profit initiative, specializing in scientific computing and research methods in natural sciences and healthcare. It focuses on improving the state of research in Pakistan, through a comprehensive three-tiered approach including exposure, training and research. Research scholars in Pakistan do not have sufficient opportunities where… Read More »
Background: It is hard to imagine that we are still debating this 233 years after the successful development of the first vaccine, in 1796, by Edward Jenner. To a Pakistani this may seem like a debate in the west but locally people are increasingly refusing to vaccinate their children on various grounds. This also made… Read More »
Most humans think that they are the centre of the Universe. While in one way, the way they want to believe it, may not be true, they may be right in another way. Let’s dig further and explore if this is really true. We start by introducing the definition of a “metre”, a unit of… Read More »
Recap: Just to refresh for myself and all of you, what we have been looking at so far in the Protein Structure Series is understanding protein structures. While many text books already cover a lot of the basic stuff, these posts are especially structured for aspiring researchers who want to start working with protein structures… Read More »
An introduction to this series: To be explicitly clear, these set of articles don’t intend to be superior to any other existing body of knowledge on the subject of protein structures. What is intended here is just another textbook introduction followed by a very context specific description of these beauties so… Read More »
IDRACK is now accepting expression of interests from students, faculties and universities to host scientific training workshops in 2019. If you are interested please follow the steps outlined below: If you haven’t already filled out the general scientific interest survey please do so now. Please visit our IDRACK’s Facebook page and comment on the latest post… Read More »
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