Weekly Biotech News of India
Prama Ghosh , Amity University Kolkata Brazosport Water Authority, a water treatment plant in Lake Jackson, Texas, showed the presence of Brain-Eating Amoeba, Naegleria fowleri late Friday around 9:30 p.m. A “do not use” advisory was issued across the plant’s service area shortly after. Discovered in 1965, Naegleria fowleri infects the human body by entering […]
Team bioXone.in The sporadic increase of nCoV (SARS-CoV-2) aroused widespread concern about the associated morbidity and mortality. The scientific community is also worried about the developing ways that could help propagate the spread of the virus. So, the research to date gathered up to a review suggests that birds, being migratory, perching, and also possessing […]
SAMRAT SARKAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Where the entire world is trying to find a way out of this pandemic situation, Bharat Biotech with collaborated with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have gone for another massive bang on the pandemic by trying a new novel chimp-adenovirus, a single-dose intranasal vaccine for Covid-19 using […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata India, a land that depends on agriculture is also a country that has yet to walk a long way to be known as a developed country. Thus, we depend mostly on cattle and not on machines for farming purposes. The water buffalo is one such cattle breed which is of […]
-Ruchita Karmakar, Amity University Kolkata A research team led by Debojyoti Chakraborty and Souvik Maiti of CSIR and TATA group came up with a new test named FELUDA to detect COVID-19. It’s a paper test strip that gives a precise result within 30 minutes; Approved for commercial launch by the Drugs Controller General of India. […]
-Binayak Das, Team bioXone A team of scientists claims that Indians should be grateful to their genetics, which according to their study is a critical factor in having a comparatively lesser number of deaths from COVID-19 in their populations. They studied the complete DNA data of the ACE2 gene in the X chromosomes from different […]
–Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech in a joint effort with analysts from the ICMR’s National Institute of Virology, based in Pune has delivered the information from the creature preliminaries of its immunization competitor. It demonstrated that Covaxin had the option to produce ‘robust immune responses. The two-portion vaccination routine of Covaxin […]
– Husna, Amity University Kolkata Recently, as the world is implementing re-opening plans during the COVID-19 pandemic, infrared contact-free temperature assessment devices are being used at entry points to identify and screen out feverish individuals who may carry the coronavirus. But even when the devices are used properly, temperature assessment may have a limited impact […]
–Rishav Chakraborty, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata The SARS-COV infection occurred first in 2003-2004. The infection is believed to be contracted from animals including monkeys, Himalayan palm civets, cats, dogs, and rodents. Clinical manifestation including myalgia, headache, sore throat, and fever followed by severe respiratory distress. The virus binds with the ACE-2 (Angiotensinogen Converting Enzyme) […]
-Mayukh Sinha, Amity University Kolkata The COVID-19 pandemic is the trending matter of concern. In addition to that, the post-recovery health of COVID-19 patients has imposed a threat as well. It has been reported that a 33-year-old Chinese man caught his second infection. It simply posed a doubt on the human immune system’s ability to […]
