Dear PMT Aspirants! The PMT exam season has storied and the exam fever if catching fast. Its a nervous time for oil the students as well as their parents. Here are some last - minute valuable lips that every exam going student must know: • Set up a review schedule and stick to it and review selectively. • Try to predict questions; write these down so you con rehearse possible answers. • Study groups eon work. if they (it your learning style, but study together early, not just before the exam. • On the night before the exam, try to maintain o natural schedule. Eat the way you usually do; sleep a normal amount. Eat a light meal before exam time. • Accept your tension and think of good ways to release that tension. Remember that some Tension is normal and even beneficial. • Get to your exam ahead of more...

Like previous years this year too lot of exam dotes ore dashing. Some of the national level exams are clashing with national or state level exams which o student sits for. As on dote the following exam dates are clashing :- AFMC                          --         4th May West Bengal JEE          --        3rd &, 4th May   AIIMS                         --      1st June CMC Ludhiana             --      1st June   BHU                           --      18th May Delhi PMT                   --       18th May   MGIMS Wardha           --       11th  May D.Y.Patil Vidyapeeth    --       11th  May   Every PMT student sits for multiple exams both for national level exams like CBSE, AIIMS, BHU, AFMC etc. and also for state level exams like WBJEE, Delhi PMT, MP PMT etc. where he is domiciled. On an average a PMT aspirant sits for minimum 2 pre medical tests. This he does to maximize his chances, of getting through at more...

US scientists have brought some cheer to on otherwise gloomy period marked by the Columbia tragedy and president George Bush's continued threat of war. Newly formulated drugs ore beginning to redefine the hitherto dreaded disease, cancer transforming it from 'killer' to 'chronic'. The big C will soon take its place among other controllable chronic diseases 'like diabetes, and asthma. Cancer is caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a par) of the body, resulting In a malignant growth or tumour. Till recently, cancer was synonymous with pain and fatality- All that has changed now with medical breakthroughs signalling new and better ways of dealing with the disease. Chemotherapy and radiation - remedies which were often cited as being worse than the disease for the strong side-effects they induced — are today being complemented with other drug therapies designed to slow down the growth of the cancer and in more...

With the deciphering of the genetic make-up of yet another chromosome, scientists Are well on their way to produce what's often described as 'a virtual periodic table of life'. This time it's been the turn of chromosome 14 -fourth in line after chromosomes 22, 21 and 20- to yield its blueprint to the gene sleuths, Genes control the formation of proteins that make a cell tick, deciding how it will repair, defend or divide itself and are packaged in chromosomes in the nucleus of our cells. After the first draft of the entire human genome (the complete set of instructions needed to make a human being that ore packaged in chromosomes) have been busy deciphering the chromosomes one by one. Decoding chromosome 14 has obviously been o particularly rewarding experience for geneticists as it has led them to more than 60 disease-causing genes that it comes, besides a couple of more...

Melodies come straight from heart but some researchers are on the way to prove that melodies are more closer to mind than heart. Researchers at Dartmouth ore getting closer to understanding how some melodies hove a tendency to stick in your head or why hearing a particular song can bring back a high school dance. They have found and mapped the area in your brain that processes and tracks music. It's a place that's also active during reasoning and memory retrieval. The study indicates that knowledge about the harmonic relationships of music is maintained in the rostromedial prefrontal cortex, which is centrally located, right behind the forehead. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments, the researchers asked their eight subjects, who all had some degree of musical experience to listen to a piece of original music. The music was specifically crafted to shift in particular ways between and around the more...

The Centre's clearance for the setting up of a new medical college attached to the Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi has come at a "very appropriate time as the need for having additional I medical colleges in the country has been I felt for very long. The Capital has four medical colleges, if one has to include the All India Institute of Medical Sciences which has hardly any seats for students from the city. Delhi has been growing at a rate faster than any other metropolitan city In the world. Its unofficial population is about 20 million and therefore the number of medical colleges needs to be increased. Two of the largest hospitals in the city-LNJP and Safdarjung- get adequate cases, which could provide clinical support tor any medical college to succeed. The LNJP serves the Maulana Azad Medical College which come up in the late fifties. The Safdarjung Hospital, for more...

Bio toxiris ere poisons produced by living organisms and their synthetic equivalents and are classed as chemical warfare agents if they are used for military purposes. Although biological warfare, sometimes coiled germ warfare, has never been officially employed on the modern battlefield, the increased amount of research and testing of disease-producing viruses and bacteria tor military purposes has caused worldwide alarm. Some typical examples of biological warfare agents might include: Anthrax, Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B {SEB}, Bubonic pneumonic plague, cholera, plague. smallpox, glanders, meliodosis, morburg and ebola Infections, lasso infection, machupo infection and may other hemorrhagic fevers and various encephalitis and other bio-engineered agents. The threat of the international use or even accidental release of o airborne "class-4" biological weapon (BW) is, in some ways, far more frightening to analysts and researchers than that of a chemical release, for which there may be known specific antidotes and counter-measures. In the case, more...

In the early 1 980s, on illegal battery-disposal operation in Hong Kong's Junk' boy was releasing large amounts of polychlorinated biphenyls, lead and zinc into the water. But the crime did not go unwitnessed. The barnacles and mussels living in the bay concentrated the pollutants in their tissues. The evidence they gave up to local researchers and their colleagues helped the authorities shut the low-breakers down. The idea that studies of living organisms can provide information about environmental hazards is not new before the advent of modern safety equipment, miners kept an eye on the health o( caged canaries to warn them of dangerous gas build-ups. Recently Italian lichenologists hove devised an index of lichen biodiversity, and the sampling methods to calculate if as an indicator of the atmospheric levels of sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen Coupled with this, the accumulations of 17 trace metals are measured in a more...

Researchers from Indian Space Research Organisation and the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics seem to hove stumbled on to what can possibly be extraterrestrial microbes in the higher reaches of the atmosphere. If their findings ore borne out by further experiments, it will certainly be a leg-up for exobiology, the study of the possibility of life elsewhere in the cosmos (See Career-Exobiology - December 2000 issue of Biology Today). Scientist always look forward to the discovery of alien life-be it in a Martian meteorite found here on the Earth, or on some other planet in space - with a mixture of anticipation and anxiety. The excitement, of course, springs from anticipating the first ever encounter with extraterrestrial life. But then there is also the very real and frightening possibility of such life fuming out to be some kind of virulent and deadly microbes. This is a major worry more...

Doctors believe they hove found o way to fertilise on egg with cells from any port of the body. rather than sperm. An Australian team has created embryos in this way with mice. The research, which complement efforts to enable infertile women to "re program me" donated eggs with their Own genetic recipe, was originally intended to help couples to have babies that ore their own genetic offspring, even when the man has no sperm or even sperm-making cells. This kind of researchers, in theory at least, can enable a lesbian couple to hove o baby, with one woman contributing an egg are the second a cell to fertilise it. There are theoretical problems lo overcome in combining the genes of two women, because aspects of development ore controlled by a paternal gene, when a maternal copy is turned off, and vice versa, as a result of a process called more...