Evolutionary engineer Kevin Esvelt, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, works with gene drives, engineered bits of DNA that can cause a mutation to become heritable all the time. He calls for researchers
Project Prakash. In order to get a first-hand sense of childhood blindness in India, Prof. Pawan Sinha visited a few places in the country, distant from the ambit of urban medical care facilities. Here he
Abha Sur is part of the humanities faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A physical chemist by training, she taught this subject and also published several papers on laser spectroscopy, her field of specialization.
Margaret Lowman is a pioneer in canopy science, a subset of field biology, and the author of the best-selling Life in the Treetops. She also co-authored It is a Jungle Up There with her two
Snakebite, a recent inclusion to the list of neglected tropical diseases drawn up by the World Health Organization, could be the most neglected of all neglected tropical diseases in the 21st century, says David Warrell,
Prof. Rohini Godbole, particle physicist, is a researcher at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. In a parallel universe, she would have been a Bank of Maharasthra employee: she was offered a job after she