Aswathy Ashok Menon

Apr 16, 2024 | medium.com | Aswathy Ashok Menon

In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, and now your favourite bar of chocolate is collateral damage. Before we spiral into a full-blown “Russia hates chocolate” conspiracy, let us back up a bit. Your chocolate’s recent price hike is directly linked to the skyrocketing cost of cocoa, the highest cost ingredient. As of last month, the price of cocoa reached $10,000 per metric ton for the first time ever. To put things into perspective, this price was around $2,800 this time last year.

Apr 5, 2024 | medium.com | Aswathy Ashok Menon

Imagine this. A sustainable, utopian future with AI driven cognitive cities. Actually, don’t imagine. They are building it in Saudi Arabia. It’s called Neom. According to the CEO, Nadmi Al-Nasr, Neom is addressing some of the pressing challenges facing humanity by bringing together a community of the brightest minds committed to reimaging what a sustainable future will look like in 20 to 30 years, and building it today.

Jan 31, 2024 | medium.com | Aswathy Ashok Menon

As I scrolled through my news feed while waiting for the coffee to kick in, a paradoxical headline caught my eye — Environmental activists throw soup at the Mona Lisa to advocate for….food security? In all fairness, the four periods and question mark were not a part of the actual headline, but that’s just how my brain processed this information. My first instinct was to roll my eyes at the absurdity of throwing food to protest a ‘food issue’.

Apr 19, 2023 | jcp.bmj.com | Aswathy Ashok Menon |Vikram Deshpande |David Suster

Aswathy Ashok Menon1, http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4230-9308Vikram Deshpande2, David Suster3 1 Department of Pathology, Neuberg Anand Reference Laboratory, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 2 Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Department of Pathology, Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA Correspondence to Dr David Suster; dssusterdi{at}gmail.com Abstract The mouse double minute 2 (MDM2) gene is located on the long arm...

Apr 19, 2023 | jcp.bmj.com | Aswathy Ashok Menon |Vikram Deshpande |David Suster

IntroductionThe mouse double minute 2 (MDM2) gene is one of the most critical negative regulators of p53, a protein colloquially referred to as the guardian of the genome. MDM2 overexpression is known to have a tumorigenic effect through the inactivation of normal p53 tumour suppressor function. Alterations of the MDM2 gene have been reported in sarcomas, carcinomas, glioblastoma and some haematological malignancies.