Rakesh Yashroy

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Can training enhance rate of evolution?

How we tame our instincts with wisdom reflects our level of evolution.

22 October 2018 9,156 2 View

What exactly is virulence of microbes?

Is it a relative term? http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Virulence

18 May 2014 4,762 2 View

Any insight on quantization of microbial secretion versus continuous secretion for controlling their environment?

Protein and biochemical secretions from small microbes must not go waste. Is this more efficient by orchestrated secretion of different biochemicals or quantized secretion via outer membrane...

31 January 2014 7,324 1 View

Should the 'Title' of a 'Research Paper' be more general and interesting or the exact statement of a new finding?

Most readers pay attention and read a research paper when its 'Title" generates interest. However, exact statement of the main finding as 'Title' educates the 'in-field' researcher.

13 October 2013 5,950 15 View

Has English become the sole language of communicating discoveries in science and technology in research journals?

English has accepted words/terms from almost all languages of the world. Scientific discoveries published in languages other than English are not globally read and appreciated.

28 September 2013 9,895 8 View

Liver vulnerability to Salmonella toxicity, is it so serious?

Intestinal disruption and toxin may leak into circulation?

16 September 2013 2,448 2 View

What are 'exosomes' and what is their role in cell biology?

Exocytosis/extrusion of cellular materials via blebbing of membranes is drawing increasing attention as transport, communications and gene-transfer in cell biology of pro- and eukaryotes.

10 September 2013 1,867 2 View

What is the advantage of lipopolysaccharide endotoxin to Gram-negative microbes?

All gram negative microbes have a unique signature molecule - lipopolysaccharide - abundant in the outer leaflet of their outer membrane. What advantage does it provide to the organisms?

09 September 2013 3,596 2 View

Does fever in infection or endotoxemia favour host or microbe, and to what extent e.g. in toxicity as shown in the link here?

Microbial toxins may up-regulate the body temperature of the host - why?

18 August 2013 9,095 3 View

Who rules the earth - man or microbes?

Microbes are dictating their terms everywhere on earth. Man is only posing as nuclear demon challenging to destroy life on earth.

16 August 2013 8,850 5 View

What is the advantage of melanin pigment to cells, tissue, organs and the body, e.g. in a given paper and otherwise?

Melanin pigment is known to absorb light in exposed parts of the body and convert it into heat.

12 August 2013 5,307 1 View

What is 'suspended animation'? In what state is a virus outside its host?

Freeze-dried simple living beings, frozen embryos, seeds, are in what state of life?

11 August 2013 2,202 1 View

What are the possible methods of termite control and how eco-friendly are they?

Termite causes unaffordable loss of wood, wooden furnishings and crops.

03 August 2013 3,685 3 View

What are the scientific methods to accelerate bone fracture healing to reduce debility time and suffering?

Biophysical stimulation like magnetic field and electric field have been used for augmenting osteogenesis.

02 August 2013 7,055 2 View

Which countries in the world have neem trees other than Indian subcontinent?

Neem is the most ancient solution for health and environment.

28 July 2013 315 6 View

What factors render bacterial pathogens in phagosomes, resistant to degradation by lysosomes e.g., in given paper here or elsewhere?

Lysosomes normally fuse with phagosomes to degrade their contents by enzymatic lysis, but this does not happen in some cases of infections.

28 July 2013 4,779 0 View

Quantization of protein secretion, trafficking for targetted delivery by gram negative microbes: is this not more efficient than orchesrated delivery?

Orchestrated molecule-by-molecule delivery via narrow syringe-channels from gram-negative microbes to contact host/target cells can be slow and tough.

14 June 2013 7,922 0 View

Can 'clever' bacterial pathogens exploit host defence in their own favour like in this paper here?

Host defence mechanisms are to stop pathogens to infect and spread disease, but can that be exploited by the invading pathogens?

04 June 2013 9,924 2 View

Do all human Salmonella pathogens multiply in macrophages?

Salmonella species that multiply in macrophages can lead to systemic typhoid-like infections.

16 May 2013 475 5 View

Do Salmonella toxins cause liver hepatic cell apoptosis (see electron micrograph in given paper)?

Many pathogens may induce apoptosis in host cells for producing disease.

07 May 2013 770 1 View

Does lactic acid have anything to do with the immunoprotective effect of probiotics?

We studied the ultrastructure of salmonella in humans during invasion/infection (see ResearchGate page).

01 April 2013 3,945 1 View

What is the cost-effectiveness of controlled-release of neem oil for agricultrual termite and pest control?

Neem is age-old penacea for most problems in India and Asia and now in Africa, China and USA.

31 March 2013 5,936 3 View

Why in modern times, emphasis on basic research is gradually reducing?

Grants and interest in basic scientific research.

22 October 2012 9,496 1 View

How to stop infestation of mango mealy bug?

Mango trees.

21 September 2012 9,985 0 View

If the OBSERVER is NOT fixed, how can observation be correct?

The Heizenberg's uncertainty principle may be explained in that the observer is invariably the part of the same ever-changing universe 'he/she' is observing, then how can he/she find the precise...

01 January 1970 5,139 2 View

Should copyright of scientific and knowledge research articles not be confined to five years, legally?

Original research articles are published by commercial and society journals with a lot of effort and reasonable finances, no doubt. In the end, these organizations earn a decent profit in the...

01 January 1970 4,427 8 View