Ramanathan Natesh

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A one-day symposium on Biological Big Data Analysis organized by the Center for High-performance Computing (CHPC) was inaugurated by Prof. J. N. Moorthy, the Director of IISER Thiruvananthapuram today. The workshop has over 170 registered attendees and aims to highlight advances in biological sciences facilitated by high-performance computing. @EduMinOfIndia @jnmoorthy_IISER @JNMoorthy1

not from crystal diffraction data but from information of a DNA fibre X-ray diffraction which they got from Dr. Rosalind Franklin photograph 51 which was shared by Prof. Maurice Wilkins along with his own findings that helped Watson and Crick build the double helix model.

project on which I worked. James Watson was a good friend of Prof. M. A. Viswamitra. Good Golden days !! End of an era of the famous Watson and Crick's - Watson, one of person who solved the first DNA structure..

Check out this article: cnn.com/2025/11/07/us/… Had the opportunity to speak to Dr. James D Watson and show him my PhD work during my PhD time at IISc Bangalore when he visited our lab at IISc.

with no inputs or contributions from me :-) ..lovely pleasant surprise..

IISER-TVM.. Anvesha 1st day and Open day a glimpse.. including students visit to our lab 31st November 2025 @bio_iisertvm @tvmiiser ..In some student exhibits .. bsms 2025 batch students were also talking about cryoEM, crystals, protein crystallography and alpha folds.. lovely 😍

@svembu Your calculations reminds me of the Levinthall Paradox.. 😍

To understand why medicine is so complex, let's make a crude simplifying assumption that there are only 100 biomarkers that are important (in reality there are vastly more). Let's also crudely assume each market is allowed only two values. That gives us 2^100 possibilities, which is about 10^30. That is vastly more than humans that ever lived. And this is with the extremely over-simplified model. We face a practical infinity of possibilities. In reality, no two patients are ever really alike. No statistical model can give you very high confidence on how to treat. That is why AI can never treat patients, because human doctors exercise something called "clinical judgment". That judgment is what enables a doctor to tell us "this is not a serious issue, get good sleep" vs "this definitely needs deeper investigation". That judgment is hard. Often they cannot even explain why they arrived at this but great doctors have that intuition. The entire Big Medicine is about systematically dismantling clinical judgment and convert doctors to mere "protocol pushers". Great doctors resist this. Now on top of the measurable biomarkers, there is the unmeasurable factor called "mental state". Every good doctor knows a positive mental state in a patient leads to far better clinical outcomes. That is why good doctors practise compassionate medicine, not just numbers based medicine. I know an outstanding skin doctor in Chennai who prescribed me medicine for my very-itchy Eczema that I had endured for months, and he also told me "try to avoid stress and it may go away, and you may not even need the medicines I prescribed". I consciously reduced my stress level and the problem went away without medicine. That is a truly great doctor. What does it have to do with autism-vaccine connection? As my crude numerical analysis showed, we have the problem of N=1 way too often in medicine and that is even more true for autism where each kid is truly unique, and that is why statistics are mostly useless and clinical judgment is mostly all we have. We cannot have broad sweeping mandates, definitely not broad vaccine mandates. Each doctor has to exercise their judgment with their patient. And they have to listen to the patient concerns first. What Big Medicine is about is to try to reduce medicine to be a pure statistical science and it is not. Conditions like autism do not fit that paradigm at all. That is the battle here. At its core it is not just an autism battle, it is a philosophy of medicine battle. I pledge to keep fighting this fight because I nearly wanted to commit suicide at one one point in my life. Just this morning, a depressed parent approached me for advice and that started my X thread today. I urge intelligent doctors to debate this philosophy of medicine issue. I will not respond to the arrogant "stay in your lane" types.

@kvijayraghavan @kalyanasc Our deepest condolences to Chetan and family😔 😟.

(h/t @kalyanasc ) Eknath Vasant Chitnis, who passed away in Pune on October 21, 2025, at the age of 100. A pioneering space scientist, he was widely recognised as one of the architects of India's space programme and a close associate of Vikram Sarabhai. Chitnis was instrumental in establishing the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR), which evolved into the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He played a decisive role in identifying Thumba (Thiruvananthapuram) as the site for India's first rocket launch and later contributed to the selection of Sriharikota for future launches. As Member Secretary of INCOSPAR, he oversaw foundational projects and the evolution into ISRO, helping establish modern Indian space science. Chitnis directed the Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad, and led several groundbreaking projects, including the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE), which brought educational programs via satellite to rural India in 1975-76 and laid the groundwork for India's digital revolution. He was an alumnus of Sir Parashurambhau College, Wadia College (Pune, and MIT (USA). He is survived by his son, Professor Chetan Chitnis, a noted malaria researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and previously at the ICGEB Delhi.

@ruchianand1975 @DBTIndia @IndiaDST @ANRFIndia @India_Alliance Hearty congratulations Ruchi

I am delighted to get this honour from TWAS. I thanks IIT Bombay for always being a pillar of support. My granting agencies DBT Wellcome trust India Alliance, DST, ANRF and DBT for their constant support in driving my research! @DBTIndia @IndiaDST @ANRFIndia @India_Alliance

@poonam_thakur6 @eLife Hearty congratulations Poonam

Pleased to share our collaborative paper published in @eLife. This study demonstrates that Kv4.3 channel mediates the recovery of dopaminergic neurons' firing activity after 6-OHDA-induced injury. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">elifesciences.org/articles/10403…

BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

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