Interesting articles written by BioXone members and associates.
Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata INTRODUCTION Water, one of the fundamental sources of life, is capable of being an annoyance for some individuals. Aquagenic urticaria (AU) or “water allergy” is a unique form of physical or chronic inducible urticaria caused by water exposure. Urticaria (also called hives) is a skin reaction in response to an […]
Aayushi Gaur, U.I.E.T, Kurukshetra University The father of probiotics, Élie Metchnikoff, hypothesized the favorable effects of ingesting good bacteria, such as those in yogurt, on human health. Probiotic research has exploded since then, and probiotics have grown into a multibillion-dollar business. Introduction to Probiotics- We’ve all heard of the words ‘probiotics’ and ‘prebiotics’. Prebiotics are plant-based foods […]
Priyanka Saha, Amity University Kolkata Introduction: The rarest form of blood type on Earth is ‘Rh-null blood’, also known as ‘Golden blood’. The rationale behind being rare is due to the lack of all the Rh (rhesus) antigens (proteins) on the surface of red blood cells (RBC). RBC of these people has an unusual shape, […]
Surupa Chakraborty, Amity University, Kolkata “The longer your telomeres, the better off you are”, remarkedElizabeth H. Blackburn, an eminent biologist and the Nobel Prize (2009) awardee for the remarkable discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. Insight into the fountain of youth: Telomeres are specialized minuscule molecular structures made from […]
DiyaAdhikary, Amity University Kolkata The very thought that cricket chirps indicate something rather meaningful about our environment other than to simply annoy us with their high-pitched sound is baffling! For some cultures, the chirping of insects holds different meanings- a sign of good luck, rain, something bad, impending illness, or even death. But Science has […]
Laiba Saleem, Aligarh Muslim University Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not any doubt the core way forward for IT, and together with machine learning and data science it holds significant potential in majority fields, and the medicinal industry is not any stranger thereto. From medical/surgical robotics to microchips containing the anamnesis of patients, AI has come […]
Aayushi Gaur; U.I.E.T, Kurukshetra University CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, accompanying it ‘Cas’, an acronym for CRISPR-associated protein. Cas can be readily modified to target particular portions of DNA and to turn genes on/off without changing their sequence. It is a form of genome editing technology that is utilized to make […]
Shreejita Bhowmick, Techno India University There are some instances when we feel breathlessness, a feeling of not getting enough air. Such instances might not necessarily indicate an underlying critical disease. Tachypnoea is such a condition that refers to abnormal, rapid but shallow breathing. It is often mistaken with conditions of hyperventilation, hypernoea (rapid but deep […]
Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata Depression is currently one of the most well-known psychiatric disorders with an increasing number of patients every year. Existing research reveals the role played by different cellular, neuroendocrine and neurochemical mechanisms on the pathophysiology of depression. Since the last two decades, studies of neuroanatomical changes in depression, mainly in the […]
Souhrid Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata UNDERSTADING BIOLOGICAL WARFARE Biological warfare is a primitive concept that has been in use for nearly 2000 years. Evidence for the deliberate use of microorganisms and toxins as bioweapons are there throughout history. Biological warfare is the use of biological toxins or infectious pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and […]
