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Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is currently raging across our country, and in its most lethal form by far. While scientists are still carrying out extensive research for a permanent one-size-fits-all cure, there are other forms of treatment and prevention strategies. They include vaccine development, designing of macromolecular neutralizing antibodies, and […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata “Of course, it’s happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?” that’s what Dumbledore said to Harry right? But at the end of the day, it is considered fiction, the entire Harry Potter. What if such a fictional world is the reality for someone? That’s […]
Diya Adhikary, Amity University Kolkata The etymology of “venom” is associated with polytheistic cults that highlighted the accomplishment of desires sometimes aided by “love potions”. This was later interpolated with the word “poison”. Venom is defined as a mixture of toxic enzymes and various other proteins. It is produced in certain specific glands in the […]
Surupa Chakraborty, Amity University Kolkata “The world is full of endless possibilities to contemplate, and my brain has no idea where to put them all. They just tumble around in there like balls in a lottery machine.” ~As quoted by someone who has been seeking refuge from the nonstop chaos inside his/her ADHD brain. ADHD? […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata The immune system is the body’s defense system on which the entire functionality of an individual depends; but what if the frontline warriors are corrupted and conspires against the territory (here the body)? The entire kingdom (the organ systems) will crash and be ruined right? That’s exactly what happens in […]
Anish Pyne, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur With the growing prowess of personalized medicines and molecular drugs, a group of methods took the central stage allowing the introduction of highly specific changes within the genome by either adding or deleting, or substituting any desired sequence, thus modifying the natural characteristics of a gene. And this […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata The smell is one of the most used senses used in the animal kingdom for different purposes including food, mating, etc. While animals are attracted towards other animals inside or sometimes outside their speciation, human beings use smell as a symbol of luxury and to hide their natural body odor. […]
Diya Adhikary, Amity University Kolkata “Teratomas arise from primordial germ cells” – Stevens in 1961. In the year 1964, embryologist Barry Pierce discovered that within each tumor, only one cell continued to divide and give rise to more cells while the rest of the cells differentiated and died. Clay tablets from 600-900 BC were believed […]
Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata We all know how our genes are responsible for the transmission of characteristics like physical features, conditions, and diseases from one generation to the other. However, the discovery of a set of genes found in some individuals known as the “serial-killer genes” (or the “murder genes”) leads us to the […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata How do ants immediately become aware when their queen ant dies? Is it via “telepathy”? Ants seem to possess an unusual ability, that of telepathic communication. Telepathy refers to the communication of thoughts or ideas by means other than the known or conventional senses. It is the ability to communicate […]
