Avnish Kumar in Research

Dr. Avnish Kumar Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Agra has completed his PhD from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Univ., Agra. Then joined Research associate-ship at Central Institute for Research on Goats that is a premier Institution of Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India. Presently, he is teaching M.Sc. students in Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra. He has published more than 20 research and review papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed 4 national & international Journals. He is also providing reviewer services to various scientific journals.

Love !

Dear Friends,
Some one send me a forwarded mail. And I find a quotation in between the lines written in mail.
"when love is in your heart, there's room for endless happiness."

Now i want to know why it is so.... I have hear from several of my friends that when their girlfriend married/engaged with other guys. They lost all feelings of love for her. And after some time get new girl for love. And even some friend point out that they found new one even in one day only after thinking a single sentence that " I am in love with miss X". Some of my friends has told me on the basis of their experiences that it is only a mental thinking. So where is endless happiness does it in own imaginations or in real loves. :-)
And some friends had suggested that for a happy life (or we can say happiness), it is better to find a wiser girl for marriage, and beautiful girl for love.

Truth of life

Dear friends,
I recently noticed about people from news papers and might be general discussion. they are dual behavior. These people get money from Govt of India for doing work. But they are not faithful to the government and doesn't do the duty they get. While a person or private company owner when offered money (bribe) they do the job so much sincerely.

Why the people are like this. Do they want privatization if it is true then why comes to oppose the govt on privatization of several public organization. And also for Inflation. Is it good to behave according to situation and only for self benefits? And if so then what would be changes you needs in me.

Avnish

Politics and Scientist

Whats in a name.... A group discussion was read by me on "The Scientist.com" forum.... The debate was regarding changed Name of Swine flu; Influenza A/(H1N1) virus.

The debate pointed out that....
1. comparative immunity of people over 50 to the virus is that such a strain spread in humans before. So did humans transmit it to swine sometime before 1950? all of the labels for avian flu, swine flu, human flu, are just a historical artifact of the moment in time that people began sequencing. In a longer time frame, have they really been moving back and forth between species at will, with just a handful of mutations?

2. In 1998 the North American swine/avian/human mix started at farms in North Carolina, and spread from there. It was not tracked even in the U.S. and not in Mexico. People complained about giant hog farms with huge stinking sewage lagoons about ways of testing and re-mediating emissions. But nothing was done about it - People just started importing pork from Mexico and inflicting this stuff on Mexicans. Now this disease has spreaded and kill thousands of people, and we know, if we didn't eat pork we wouldn't have this problem.

3. there are many smaller family farms in Mexico in the hog business and they are the ones that are hurting the most from uneducated people boycotting pork (In a period of recession). The factory farms can absorb this blow, but the small farmers can't. And you may get logic by this we should stop getting beef because of E. coli O157:H7 and chicken for Salmonella, deer carry a host of infectious diseases and others for their associated diseases with them as well. Cooking pork sufficiently can be tender, moist and delicious.

Voting rate in India...

I cast my vote and this experience was very well unexpected... India Electrol Commission have campaigned so much to pull voters to the polling booth.... In my constituency there were two polling booth and its really not imagined by me that one booth was empty and another one have a Que of only fifty to hundred people ... however there are total approximately eight hundred voters in this constituency...
Up to evening there were only 42% votes (as per newspapers) were cast.... It must be 100% in city like Agra...

Biosafety practices-2

Dear Friends,
Here are some brief point I have taken from presentation of my colleague (presented during his SRFship) Pushpendra Singh Chahar, Post Doctoral Fellow, Prof Stewart Cole Laboratory (UPCOL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

In the previous, it has indicated that Biosafety materials have classified as per their hazardous nature. Now it is mandatory to know about various Biosafety levels used for laboratory for their study.

On the basis of agents hazardous each group of agent needed several preventive infrastructures (for keeping them controlled and limited) in laboratory. These have been divided in four levels.

1. BSL1- Biosafety level 1 is used for RG1 agents. RG1 have several protozoans, fungus, harmless bacteria and some harmless viruses. It require basic laboratory equipment needed for experiment, open bench top, cleaning reagents for hands & bench and a sink. There is nothing special laboratory infrastructure require.
   
2. BSL2- Biosafety level 2 is used for RG2 agents. RG2 are disease causing protozoans, fungus, bacteria and viruses. This level required for a very large group of organism for their study which have proper prevention and therapy. In comparison to BSL1 it require restricted entry in lab. The lab must have a sign board for this and waste generated in such laboratory must be destroyed properly. There should be a booklet regarding this having written rules and information of people to be contacted during accident. First aid box is compulsory. The laboratory workers must have separate clothes for lab. Autoclave instrument also must be there. The worker must be use gloves, mask, appron etc during experiment. The experiments needs Biosafety cabinet for studying the material.
3. BSL3- BSL3 used for RG3 agents which cause serious and lethal disease but do not have community risks. In addition to BSL2 level it include controlled access, with total destruction of waste and unidirectional air flow. The laboratory constructed for this should have negative air flow and double door with automatic closing system.
4. BSL4- made for RG4 agents which cause serious lethal illness to humans as well as community. generally viruses studied. As caused diseases do not have any preventive or therapeutic interventions. BSL4 level laboratory must be equiped with BSL3 facilities as well as following. the workers should change clothes before comes out and take shower before complete exit. And total material must be destroyed properly. The worker needs a suit which can cover whole body and can create positive air pressure . there must be 24x7 electric supply and exhaust system should always work properly.
   

Note : Dear friends in case of Swine flu (H1N1 virus) I am hearing about one more level i.e. BSL5
If you know something about that please mention.

To be continued.....

Biosafety practices

Dear Friends,

Here are some brief point I have taken from presentation of my colleague (presented during his SRFship) Pushpendra Singh Chahar, Post Doctoral Fellow, Prof Stewart Cole Laboratory (UPCOL), Lausanne, Switzerland.


There are several Bio-hazards materials used in Research laboratories which needs serious precaution. The materials, originated from biological substance, having capacity to produce deleterious effects on human or animals are known as Bio-Hazards material. And the application of procedures, facilities, laboratory equipment and rules are BIOSAFETY .

The agents (biosafety material) can be distributed in four risk groups (RG).

1. RG1- the agents which are not associated with diseases in healthy humans. these agents do not require any special laboratory requirement. And there packaging also not need any declaration of Dangerous goods during shipment.
2. RG2- these agents are rarely cause serious diseases. and diseases caused by them have proper prevention and therapy. They require BIOSAFETY II level laboratory for study. The goods needs declaration of HAZARDOUS material during shipment.
3. RG3- these agents cause serious and lethal disease but do not have community risks. It require BIOSAFETY III Level laboratory for study. The packaging should clearly indicates declaration of hazardous material during shipment.
4. RG4- these agents cause serious lethal illness to humans as well as community. And generally diseases do not have any preventive or therapeutic interventions. Such materials must be studied only BIOSAFETY IV level laboratory.
   

To be continued.....