Interesting articles written by BioXone members and associates.
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Love, a feeling which has given pain as well as happiness to the world; a particular genre that has helped people to find a certain livelihood. It’s a feeling celebrated all over the world and is portrayed in the form of art, sculpture, music, movies, poems, stories, and so on. […]
Shinjini Bandopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata Migratory birds fly thousands of miles each year between their breeding and wintering grounds. Their astonishing sense of direction coupled with remarkable navigation abilities are believed to be guided by a highly sensitive and precise biological ‘magnetic compass’. The Avian Magnetic Compass The compass which allows birds to navigate is […]
Arka Acharyya, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara Turning Fantasy into Reality As we grow older, we experience an increasing number of major life changes, and staying healthy and feeling our best is important at any age. But what if you were 90 years old and one fine morning you surprisingly find yourself back to […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata What is Neuroplasticity? Plasticity is the quality of a material that allows it to easily change its shape or get molded; neuroplasticity is the same when the brain is taken into consideration. Thus, neuroplasticity is the capability of the brain to adapt to certain changes in the lifetime of an […]
Shinjini Bandopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata ORIGIN AND UNDERSTANDING OF PHANTOM LIMB PAIN Phantom Limb Pain (PLP) is the pain associated with a missing or amputated limb. Severe trauma, tumor, vascular diseases, or infections can result in surgical removal or amputation of a limb, giving rise to phantom limb sensations of excruciating pain or discomfort in […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata “A matter is something that takes up space and has volume. It can be classified into solid, liquid, and gas” – we’ve come across this sentence as early as our elementary school days. Then as we grew up, we understood the differences among these matters, the different properties and performed […]
-Diya Adhikary; Amity University Kolkata Biomaterials of ceramic origin (bioceramics) are “specially designed and fabricated for the repair and reconstruction of diseased, damaged, missing or worn out parts of the body”. Initially, the bioceramics were bioinert but afterward changed to responsive bioceramics. The era of hydroxyapatite in regenerative science dates from the 1950s when bone […]
Amartya Rakshit, Amity University Kolkata A country sleeps peacefully every day as the soldier performs its duties. They defend the honor of our motherland with their life and blood. But, are we really aware of the injuries and threats that they face on duty? The modern day warfare brings incidence of major injuries due to […]
CAMELIA BHATTACHARYYA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA It is a norm as well as a truth universally acknowledged that a single person who’s a prey of a situation would not be blamed alone but a scenario of discomfort would be brought upon his family as well. Yes, you read it right and I call it “Pride and […]
Koustav Maiti, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara The monarch butterflies ( Danaus plexippus ) are very special migratory insects, traveling a vertebrate-like long distance of 4000 km, each year to reach their overwintering ground in Central Mexico. These butterflies use various survival strategies during migration. At low temperatures, they roost in the tree branches […]
