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     Resistance to antibiotics is a serious global threat to public health, present in every country. World Health Organization highlights the worse clinical outcomes leading to death in patients with infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria. So world is looking for more antibiotic candidate structures or salts to come out of this threat. In same direction Odilorhabdins are invented. They are new class of antibiotics as published in pages 83-94 of volume 70 of Molecular Cell on 5th April. They are produced by Gram-negative bacteria genus Xenorhabdus from the family Enterobacteriaceae. They contain good numbers of non-ribosomal peptide synthetases and polketide synthases genes in their genomes. They enable to produce new bioactive compounds. The genus Xenorhabdus is symbiont to soil-bor...

     India is country of festivals, social aggregations with organized actions for specific purposes. Stories are framed for every festival. Realities of stories in same forms may be matter of investigation, but the idea behind the symbolic representation is pure scientific if original forms mentioned with texts are taken. Holi is similar festival celebrated in India (more in North Indian states) with lots of zestfulness. Slight variations in programs are observed with regional input in different states, but story as whole remains same related with Haranyakashyapa, his sister Holika and his son Prahlad. His son was follower of Lord Vishnu, who nurtures the world. Holika tried to burn Prahlad, a symbolic representation of good deeds or carriers of goods being the devotee of Lord Vishnu. Hol...