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Srabani Roy Chowdhury (MAKAUT, WB) BIOXONE BIOSCIENCES SERIES – “Extraordinary Women in Biosciences”- Day 3. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is an Indian entrepreneur who’s also a billionaire. She is the executive chairperson and founder of Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited and the former chairperson of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. She has achieved a position […]
Sarah Khatkhatay, SK Somaiya Vidhyadhar BIOXONE BIOSCIENCES SERIES – “Extraordinary Women in Biosciences”- Day 2. “Women have to first believe in themselves in order to take over the position of leadership” -Chandrima Shaha. Chandrima Shaha inherited this belief right from her very own DNA, her father being a photographer teaching her to see the extraordinary in […]
S U Vandhana, School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT-Vellore Introduction Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a notable example of a chronic disease whose manifestations are visible as dysfunctional, hyperinflammatory immune response with chronic pulmonary infections creating a huge catastrophe to the airways. This leads to substantial morbidity accompanied by shortened life span. Being an opportunistic pathogen, Pseudomonas […]
Shubham Koirala, alumnus at Kathmandu University, Nepal HIV/AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first proclaimed when opportunistic infections and rare malignancies were seen among homosexual men in 1981. It is endorsed that AIDS is caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 (HIV-1) which is also widely known as Lentivirus (belongs to the Retrovirus family). HIV is […]
Shenade Annie Kerketta, Amity University Kolkata In nature, certain microbes such as bacteria and fungi can utilize hydrocarbons and other toxic pollutants to carry out metabolic and reproductory processes. For these hydrocarbon-degrading microbes, pollutants are nothing more than another kind of food they can consume and metabolize for energy. These microorganisms can be thought of […]
Debarati Basu, Makaut WB BIOXONE BIOSCIENCES SERIES – “Extraordinary Women in Biosciences”- Day 1. Dr. Renu Swarup- the iconic woman who supported microbial diversity studies so vividly in India, that scientists named an entirely newly discovered species after her as a tribute. The first-ever women secretary of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India is […]
Prerna Jha, NIT Durgapur “Fears are nothing more than a state of mind “~Napoleon Hill To continue per this proverb, the stimulus due to fear is initiated in the brain, which is a distressing emotional reaction in response to a real or potential threat. These perceptions of danger and feelings of helplessness activate the brain’s […]
Srabani Roy Chowdhury, MAKAUT, WB Introduction Plant roots are associated with a diverse community of microorganisms. These communities are collectively known as root microbiome. The communities contain microorganisms that are both helpful as well as harmful for the plant, in terms of affecting its physiological functioning. Mycorrhizal and mycoparasitic fungi as well as bacteria that […]
Priyanka Saha, Amity University Kolkata Introduction Senolytics are a special class of drugs that eliminate old or senescent cells (SC) in the body. They are developed to prevent or delay age-related diseases in humans. The word senolytics is connected to “Senostatic” which refers to suppressing senescence. Most of the senolytic agents are in the early […]
Seshadri Dutta, NIIT University Introduction The global population is increasing at an alarming rate, with a quarter of the world’s population anticipated to reach 10 billion in the next 30 years. In the current situation, the most pressing problem facing humanity is ensuring food security for an expanding population. Extreme weather, decreasing agricultural land availability, […]
