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    Moving away from Eponyms

    By Anshu / August 22, 2018

    The Oxford English Dictionary defines an eponym as “a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named”. Medicine is full of diseases and syndromes named after people who described something. You…

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    The story of Kary Mullis and the invention of PCR

    By Anshu / August 20, 2018

    Some stories from science are fascinating. The story of Kary Mullis and his eureka moment which led to the invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is one such story which I love reading about. For people…

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