When Science Gets Personal: Emotions, Evolution, and Experience

Serotonin is called as happy hormone and its receptors play an important role in regulating happiness in humans and other animals. They also play an important role in gut health due to their abundance in the gastrointestinal tract. Today the use of the drugs that are targeting happy receptors are increasing. The evolution of these receptors and their respective targeted drugs are having huge impact on humans and animal and plant species share our ecosystem. This talk discusses the possible ways to minimise the usage of the drugs based on the evolution of the happy receptors.

What do we know about cancer and what do we not know? What if the disease focus of your research as a scientist became your lived experience? Would this help or hinder your recovery? This is a story of leukemia learnings from the lab and life and where it has led.