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Crosstalk: How Models Reveal the Secrets of Biology Without Making the News

Sunil Laxman 06/11/2016

As a society reaping the benefits of all the...

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Celebrating Janaki Ammal, Botanist and a Passionate Wanderer of Many Worlds

Geeta Doctor 06/11/2016

Recently, there have been attempts to reposition Janaki Ammal...

Women’s Cancers Are Curable for the Rich But Often a Death Sentence for the Poor

Ophira Ginsburg, Lesong Conteh, Lynette Denny and Richard Sullivan 02/11/2016

Of women who die from cervical cancer, 87% live...

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The Conversation on Eastern Traditions of Science That Needs to Happen But Won’t

Anonymous 29/10/2016

By The Conversation not exerting its editorial rights from...

To Decolonise Maths, Stand up to Its False History and Bad Philosophy

Chandra Kant Raju 26/10/2016

Formal mathematics creates a slave mentality. It creates a...

Why Women With Heart Disease Get a Raw Deal in Medicine

Valeria Morabito 24/10/2016

Sex-specific differences in presentation and manifestations of diseases need...

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Do You Know the Botanist Janaki Ammal, She of the Magnolia Kobus Fame?

Sharanya Dutta 21/10/2016

Ammal worked extensively on genetic crosses, and lived and...