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Sristi Raj Rai 1 , Anwita Sarkar 1 , Akshaya Pandey 1 , Sanchari Dasgupta 2, Ishani Majumder 2 , Debasis Das2, Debosreeta Bose 3* , and Madhumita Mukhopadhyay 3* 1 Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Kolkata, Rajarhat Newtown, Kolkata 700135. 2 Department of Chemistry, University of Calcutta, 92, A. P. C. Road, Kolkata […]
Shinjini Bandopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata Stem cells possess two fundamental properties: diving repeatedly to make copies of themselves and differentiating to give other types of cells in the body. They can be divided into— human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) which are pluripotent and can give rise to every cell type in the fully formed body tissue-specific […]
-Milanckona Das, Amity University Kolkata Drinking alcohol to get rid of our “thoughts” is a method that we pick up very often. But what if you generate your alcohol within your body and then you don’t have to drink to get tipsy! It happens very seldom within the body when there’s an overgrowth of yeast […]
– Ayushman Kumar Banerjee, Research Intern at Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore Back in 2018, 10X Genomics acquired Stockholm-based Spatial Transcriptomics marking another milestone in the domain of omics analytics. As the term suggests, spatial transcriptomics (ST) is an in-situ quantification technology that allows visualization of transcriptomes in specific tissue selections. The central idea behind ST […]
Ankita Chattopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata The word ALIEN can be associated with words like unknown, unfamiliar, disturbing. The syndrome is a rare neurological condition developed in 1909 causing one’s hand to act on its free will. It means that the individual has no control over their hand. Sometimes one leg is affected as well but […]
-Dr. Jutishna Bora, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Kolkata All forms of diabetes are preliminarily characterized by hyperglycemia. Hyperglycemia is a condition during which there is an excess accumulation of glucose in the bloodstream of an individual for a prolonged time. Not only does it play a significant role by being the causal link between […]
Shrestha Sherry Chakraborty, Amity University Kolkata With the growing instances of cancer worldwide, a common term that we often hear is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is the most preferred form of cancer treatment worldwide. It is mainly carried out by the use of chemotherapeutics. However, these chemotherapeutics work if not mysterious, but in amazing ways to prevent […]
-Sayanti Pal, Amity University Kolkata Retinal Degeneration is a condition in which there is a slow degeneration of the retinal cells, eventually leading to blindness. People who suffer from these retinal degenerative diseases for years are said to suffer from permanent loss of vision. But thanks to recent advances in science and technology for giving us […]
Debraj Ghosh, Undergraduate student of Medicinal Institute, People’s Friendship Institute of Russia, Moscow, Russia Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)(1) is the strain of coronavirus causes the respiratory illness responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a positive ssRNA(4) virus that is contagious to humans and is a successor to SARS-CoV-1 according to the U.S. National Institute of Health. The SARS-CoV-2 virion […]
-Kumar Shivam, Amity University Kolkata Spiders. The word itself can cause shivers down the spine of many people. While the fear of our beloved eight-legged creature has kept many at bay in coming contact with them, some of the brilliant minds from the country of Germany had gathered together to find an ingenious method to […]
