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Diya Adhikary, Amity University Kolkata DISCOVERY: During the Roman Empire, in the 1st Century AD, Psoriasis was described by famous encyclopedist A. Cornelius Celsus as “Impetigo” (meaning: impetigo that appears on the skin of the nails and extremities). Even though Galen, a Greek physician is considered to have been the first to have coined the […]
Ankita Chattopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata Previously, COVID19 was associated with the onset of numerous symptoms that ranged from mild to moderate severity, starting from cough and fever to complete loss of movement in some cases. Unusual numbers of people from all over the world started showing different sorts of symptoms with different severities, at some […]
Surupa Chakraborty, Amity University, Kolkata Recent updates “On Thursday, the Delhi High Court (HC) restrained Sci-Hub and Libgen, the two online repositories providing free access to paywalled research, from uploading, publishing or making available any article till January 6 on a plea by the three global academic publishers, Elsevier Ltd., Wiley India Pvt. Ltd. and […]
Natasha Chakraborty, Amity University Kolkata On the 11th of March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak as a pandemic that spans almost the entire world. Starting from the initial months of 2020, when the birth of this pandemic-driven worldwide havoc was witnessed, to now at the beginning of […]
Sristi Raj Rai, Amity University Kolkata You probably know the fate of Jack & Rose – famous fictional characters featured in the movie ‘Titanic’, but have you ever wondered about what happened to the ‘unsinkable ship’ after it got swallowed into the near-freezing water of the Northern Atlantic ocean. The passenger and mail steamship, Royal […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Archaeology, anthropology, and the need to estimate dates: The study of humans and what made them where they are today is something of great interest and it has always been this way for ages. Knowledge of the past (history) leads to a better understanding of the present and the future. […]
Sayan Roy, M.Sc. Biotechnology, Pondicherry University tRNAs are the intricate biological molecules involved in the flow of genetic information from DNA to protein by reading codons in mRNA. Besides tRNA and mRNA, several non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been discovered by scientists over the past few decades that include long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and small non-coding […]
Shrestha Sherry Chakraborty, Amity University Kolkata Cancer is marked by the uncontrollable growth of malignant cells which then spread by metastasizing to different regions of the body. To battle against this deadly disease, a variety of treatments have evolved with years of research and development overcoming complex challenges and hurdles. The most well known of […]
Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata Bioluminescence can be undoubtedly regarded as one of the most stunningly beautiful and captivating abilities that Mother Nature has bestowed to some of its beings on this planet. This rather unique property is possessed and depicted by a comparatively small population of organisms on the planet. It is the phenomenon […]
Anish Pyne, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Although we usually tend to fear the painful sting of a Honeybee since our early childhood days, science offers a different perspective for it. Studies suggest that honeybee venom can be one of the most crucial weapons for mankind. Recently, an in vitro study conducted in Harry Perkins […]
