Interesting articles written by BioXone members and associates.
Srishti Deb, Amity University, Kolkata Nanoparticle: Technobiology’s wireless messenger – With the advancement of science and modern technologies, a more promising technology of drug delivery to selective tissues is used. This is a more potent targeted delivery process of therapeutic agents, that significantly eliminates drug or drug carrier side effects. Drug design and drug delivery […]
PRIASHA DUTTA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL One of the leading causes of mortality in the present-day world is cancer. Whenever we think of cancer treatment, the two words that are immediately synonymous are chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Although, due to limited efficacy based on the heterogeneity factor of cancer cells, there is a constant […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Relation between air pollution and the lungs: Air pollution, a common enemy we all preach against without taking an action. Other than causing drastic changes in the environment, it also causes problems in the respiratory system of the body and thus affects the lungs. It might at times result in […]
Ankita Chattopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata Robot- Automatically operated machine replacing human efforts. Thread- A thin fine cord The combination of these two words leads to the development of a completely new discovery which is “Robotic Thread”. If an acute stroke can be treated within the first 90 minutes, the survival rate of the patient’s increases. […]
Sayan Roy, Pondicherry University mRNA-1273 is a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, designed to fight against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is developed by a US-based pharmaceutical company- Moderna, in association with NIAID Vaccine Research Center. The mRNA-1273 vaccine encodes for the SARS-CoV-2 full-length spike glycoprotein trimer ‘S-2P’, but modified to incorporate two proline substitutions […]
Shristi Das, Amity University, Kolkata Chocolate mainly consists of cocoa mass extracted from beans of the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao). Cocoa has been known for its ability to induce good health effects since ancient times. But often chocolate had been criticized for fats and sugar contents as these lead to the risk associated with health […]
Shrestha Sherry Chakraborty, Amity University Kolkata Raynaud’s phenomenon or Raynaud’s syndrome is a condition characterized by vasospasm which is generally caused by excessive constriction of small arteries supplying blood to different body parts. This leads to a limited supply of blood and oxygen to the affected area. Low oxygen levels eventually cause necrosis of the […]
Soumili Chakraborty, Amity University, Kolkata Stem cells undergo asymmetric cell division to give rise to two daughter cells: One daughter cell which is similar to that of the original stem cell, And the second daughter cell differentiates into a non-stem cell. Stem cells are largely studied to understand the underlying mechanisms, by which they contribute to […]
Shinjini Bandopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata In Greek mythology, chimeras were hybrid creatures; part lion, part goat, part snake. Now chimeras can be simply defined as animals made up of cells of two separate zygotes. Chimeric animals have more than one set of parents. Chimeras can be built in two ways; the first is to introduce […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata Immortality is defined as eternal life i.e. being untouched by death, also acknowledged as eternal existence. Why do living beings gradually decay when they grow older? Senescence is the steady degeneration of cells or more appropriately of the entire organism ultimately. Organismal senescence leads to an increase in mortality rate […]
