Khurshid Ahmad Tariq

The ABO system discovered by Landsteiner in 1901 is clinically most significant and is of great importance in transplantation immunology and transfusion medicine. The ABO grouping is the single most important serological test performed in compatibility testing. It is a major blood group system with enormous diversity consisting of three carbohydrate antigens (A, B and H) under the control of A & B genes (of 175 alleles) present on the chromosome 9. The organ/tissue transplantation and blood transfusion depends on the successful matching of these blood groups. These antigens are widely distributed and are present not only on RBCs and platelets but also on endothelial cells of various tissues in human body. An interesting co-evolutionary relationship exists between the ABO blood group system and the useful microbial flora (bacteria) in human body. As far as their development is concerned, the A and B antigens are produced by the addition of N-acetylgalactosamine (UDP-GalNAc) and ...

Antibiotic pollution: The critical issues of enrichment of our environment by antibiotics, antibiotic resistant population of microbes and their genes are one of the greatest emerging threats to our environment. The solid waste or liquid waste accumulation of diversity of antibiotics due to their release from the industries or expired or unused products from the hospitals or households is making the environmental waste management processes quite challenging. Further the partially metabolised antibiotic components are released or excreted unaltered via human and animal excretory products into the surrounding environment (pits, ground water, lakes, rivers, etc.). Even the world’s topmost waste treatment plants are not capable to remove these antibiotics, so they continuously build up their concentration in our environment because most of their non-biodegradable nature. Therefore, ecological effects of antibiotic presence in soil and aquatic ecosystems alone has serious risks to human,...

Most of our population lives in rural areas but majority of the quality degree colleges are located in the city alone. This means there is a huge divide as far as establishment of quality colleges and quality education is considered for youth without getting displaced from the original residential areas. Pertinently, the shifting pattern from rural to urban or city colleges for gaining degrees is deeply rooted in our society and creates additional family and social problems with the displacement of student community. Because students are a part of the family and society and sharing that responsibility is equally important as is acquiring academic degrees, because working for the cause, welfare and betterment of the society is the true purpose of gaining education. This problem can only be redressed when equal facilities in terms of quality colleges are made available irrespective of region and/or rural city divide. Recently, government announced the establishment of forty more deg...

When Science was Debunked and Myth Elevated at Indian Science Congress 2019 By Dr. Khurshid Ahmad Tariq Science is an intellectual and systematic study based on observation and experimentation. The knowledge generated by science has made living on this planet happy, easy and successful. Good science is a comprehensive and exciting way of discovering the hidden secret of physical, chemical and biological world. Every day or moment holds possibility of a new discovery and words like “Eureka eureka” are still in the nature of a valid, euphoric excitement among the scientists. Scientific discoveries are based on facts and evidences and not on myths or folklore beliefs. As man progressed in science myths and mythological concepts started losing salience in human minds and thinking. However, the scenario was quite different this time in Jalandhar’s Lovely Professional University which held the 106th session of Indian Science Congress from 3rd to 7th January, 2019 with the theme: Future...

On academic excellence Published at January 03, 2019 12:22 AM ‘Education is not preparation for life, education is a life itself’   Dr. Khurshid Ahmad Tariq The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth (John F. Kennedy). Schools, colleges and universities are the main centres of acquisition of knowledge, education, wisdom, skills, truth, facts and experiences for a meaningful life. Schooling is a teaching environment to acquire while as colleges and universities are a learning environment to apply with focus on a student development. The transition from schooling to higher education is, therefore, central to the capability of expressing the creativity and potential of students towards an academic excellence. In this write-up, I shall be discussing the keys, tips, principles and methods that a student should possess or adopt to dream big and do smart to achieve excellence. Discipline an...

Violation of human genetic rights ---------------- Monday, the 10th of December , will be observed as the International Human Rights Day with the theme “Stand Up For Human Rights”. This day is celebrated to fight for the various types of rights human beings have, to promote their awareness and to improve the physical, genetic, biological, social, cultural and political wellbeing of the human species. In this essay, I shall be dwelling on the rights humans have at the level of genes called as Human Genetic Rights (HGRs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in the year 1998, fifty years after the declaration of Universal Human Rights in 1948. The basic purpose of this essay is to promote the awareness about these rights to the people and their violation due to advancements in clinical genetics and human genome editing. The recognition of ethical issues vis-à-vis human genomics and technology came into existence due to tremendous advancements in human genetic research includ...

The world AIDS day is celebrated by WHO in partnership with UN member states on December 1st every year since 1988 to provide an opportunity to the people worldwide to unite and financially support the fight against HIV. This year is the thirty years of world AIDS day labelled as WAD30 and celebrated under the theme “Know Your Status” because one in four people with HIV don’t know they have it. Therefore, to know the risks and the personal status is imperative to all. The 2018 campaign is about raising awareness and donating money at the level of community, social media, schools, colleges and universities or at other work places with the slogan “ROCK THE RED RIBBON” to support the HIV affected people and their families. The celebration of world AIDS day assumes much of the importance and significance to remind the government, people, community and other organisations/agencies to increase awareness, promote sex education, improve health care, support the affected people, stabilise...