Weekly Biotech News of India
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Out of all the vaccine-making companies, Bharat Biotech is the only one to locally develop a vaccine in India and result in large-scale manufacturing. The manufacturing of Covaxin had been started at Ankleshwar, Gujarat before which equipment efficacy was studied by carrying out engineering batches. After a 120-day timeline for manufacturing, testing, release, regulatory […]
Saakshi Bangera, DY Patil School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Maharashtra’s first case of Zika virus has reported on Friday in a 50-year-old woman residing in the Purandar area of Pune. The health officials have confirmed that the woman has recovered, and at present, she and her family show no symptoms of the virus. The health […]
Shenade Annie Kerketta, Amity University Kolkata The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has said “Opening up these rituals and enabling people without vaccination to go scot-free in these mass gatherings are potential super spreaders for the Covid third wave”. Thus, making the coronavirus third wave an inevitable event. Current statistics: Right now, the largest vaccination drive […]
Mahek Sharan, Institute of Applied Medicines and Research When the whole country is fighting against the deadly Coronavirus that has led to a global lockdown, the entry of the Zika virus in Kerala has raised concerns among the people of India. What is Zika Virus? A virus belonging to the Flaviviridae family which has the […]
Esha Mohite, MGM’s College of Engineering and Technology We all are well aware of the circumstances under which people all over the globe are living, since the last year. Covid-19 (caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus) has become a household name. The virus that previously was generally found in birds, bats, and cattle, has now taken […]
Anuska Sen, Team BioXone When famous psychologist Carl Jung said, “Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients”, he was indeed correct. A doctor is a person who serves much more than his/her profession demands. He places his patients’ life ahead of his own, does endless overtime hours, takes endless calls during his rest […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University A recently published new study states that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine immune system reactions have proved to offer long-lasting protection against COVID-19. mRNA vaccines have created more and better germinal centre B cell responses, thus indicating that the immunity system would be much more impactful and offer long-lasting […]
Shrestha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata What is Cadaveric liver transplantation? The patients who need a liver transfer yet do not have a living-related donor are offered the choice of Deceased Donor Liver Transplant (DDLT) also known as Cadaver Liver transfer. What is HOPE? Hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion (HOPE) was presented in liver transplantation (LT) to […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc Introduction: Vitamin-fortified products in everyday diet have been gaining a lot of attention amongst researchers targeting nutritional deficiency. Amongst women of reproductive age in countries with limited resources, 90% are reported to be receiving insufficient folate in their diet. Many such countries are also reporting low levels of vitamin B12, which usually […]
Saptaparna Pal, Amity University Kolkata The Union Health Ministry’s Directorate General of Health Sciences (DGHS) has proposed revised Covid-19 guidelines and removed all medicines except antipyretic (fever) and antitussive (cold) for mild and asymptomatic cases. The revised Covid-19 guidelines issued on 27 May 2021 dropped all medicines that the doctors have been prescribing even to […]
