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Diya Adhikary, Amity University Kolkata Have you ever experienced sudden fear on the sight of an eight-legged monster with fangs that’s crawling towards you? Yes I am talking about spiders. According to recent research, arachnophobia, or intense fear of spiders and spider webs can be a product of human evolution. Let us know how that […]
Seshadri Dutta, NIIT University Introduction Recently, there has been a major interest in using laser therapy in health and dentistry. There are various types of lasers available, and their applications are well defined by parameters such as wavelength, energy density, power output, and radiation duration. For example, light interacts with photosensitive cells in our retinas […]
Hari Krishnan R, SRM Institute of Science and Technology An Epithelial-Mesenchymal transition is a reversible event that occurs in embryonic development and cancer. As indicated by the name, this process involves the conversion of epithelial cells to mesenchymal cells. Cells undergoing this process are highly capable of migration, proliferation, and differentiation into various cell types. […]
Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata WHERE IT ALL BEGAN We have probably heard of “dark matter”, which is believed to make up more than a quarter of the universe. Although its presence is confirmed, scientists have not been able to detect it yet. Recently, elusive genetic matter has been detected in the genome. This biological […]
Seshadri Dutta, NIIT University Introduction Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells are a type of genetically engineered T- cells, modified in order to produce an artificial T-cell receptor that can be further used for immunotherapy. These receptor proteins are engineered in a way that it gives the T-cells the ability to target a specific protein. Following […]
Srabani Roy Chowdhury, MAKAUT, West Bengal Neutralizing antibodies are antibodies from the adaptive humoral immune system that neutralize a pathogen before entering our cells. And, they provide sterilizing immunity to our bodies by neutralizing the pathogen before infection. Production of these antibodies in our body happens naturally by our immune system. They are in charge […]
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 […]
