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By Martin Macwan We, his friends and colleagues, lovingly called him Indubhai. He is no more. The vacuum created by his departure into a shrinking space for social activism will be difficult to fill. In his 77 year age, he spent 41 long years, serving the most marginalized through multiple activities, especially through his writings. Towards the end of his life he sounded hopeless. The dominant exploitative structures were increasingly getting powerful, in his opinion, leaving little hope for the poor to get any justice. It was difficult to sit with him and confront his hopelessness. Indeed, it becomes unbearable for people who have major part of their life worrying for the poor to take a great deal of personal risk and social isolation to witness the deteriorating judicial-moral standards in society. ....
Loading video. VIDEO: An embryo of a roundworm (C. elegans) is shown undergoing its first division. The embryo expresses fluorescent probes that mark the chromosomes in magenta and the microtubules the filaments that separate. view more Credit: Desai Lab, UC San Diego Starting as a single cell, organisms undergo millions of generations of divisions to ultimately generate the bones, heart, brain and other components that make up a living being. The mainspring within this intricate process is the transfer of DNA through each subsequent cell split within discrete packets called chromosomes. It s critical that all chromosomes are duplicated and precisely distributed through every generation of cell division. If the inherited chromosome components are altered, even slightly, birth defects and certain cancers can result. ....