Weekly Biotech News of India
-Team bioXone Approximate 39% of adult individuals are found to be obese around the world. Obesity is found to be directly linked to NAFLD (Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases) which is caused due to an increase in levels of Intrahepatic lipid (IHL) content. A collaborative study was recently conducted in Germany with a sample size of […]
–Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata With the horror with which Covid-19 is spreading presently, the story of U.S President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the Coronavirus was either engineered intentionally or was the result of a laboratory accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, has brought forward terror in the minds of people. According […]
-Anuska Sen, Team bioXone On 10th September 2020, that is 2 days back, Team BioXone had covered a piece of news stating the pause of the Covid-19 vaccine of AstraZeneca by Serum Institute. Today, it has been reported that once again, the trials for AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine has been successfully resumed. The one reason that […]
-Sayak Biswas, Amity University, Kolkata During a time when the coronavirus is spreading like a wildfire across the whole world, a private laboratory in West Bengal has claimed that one in every four persons have Covid-19 Antibodies in Kolkata. This news has come as a relief to a State which has already seen over 1.87 […]
-Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata The researchers from electronics and electrical communication engineering at IIT Kharagpur have developed the micro-pump and the micro-needle – thinner than a human hair to feed into the transdermal drug delivery systems painlessly. While a human hair is 50-70 micrometers thick, the micro-needle is 55 micrometers thick. Developed with high […]
– Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata SARS-CoV-2 being a new pathogen, did not restrict itself to accumulate mutations across its genes. Researchers from the University of Melbourne, in Australia, developed a new software tool COVID-3D, which proofs itself to be powerful enough for harnessing genomic and protein information about the virus and its mutations which […]
–Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Our body is a natural and the most complicated machine and all of its parts are interrelated. Thus, any change in the environment of one part of the body is likely to cause other changes in most other parts. This theory also holds true when taking into account, the recent […]
–Anuska Sen, Team bioXone While the entire nation unanimously waits for India’s Covid-19 vaccine, there are various drawbacks and negativities regarding the vaccine that keeps on upsetting the world, particularly Indians. However, another disheartening news has been reported today. AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine has been paused by its partner, the Serum Institute of India. Earlier this […]
–Arpita Adhikary, Amity University Kolkata When the 21st century is facing pandemic, it is reported that Dengue and coronavirus share almost similar clinical features that cannot be discriminated. There are few independent research studies that observed false-positive tests for coronavirus. In Singapore, two false-positive results from rapid serological testing for dengue was later confirmed to […]
–Sanket Roy, Team bioXone Hyperactivation of the immune system under SARS-CoV-2 infection is one of the most important features of COVID-19. While the early detection of COVID- 19 became the most emerging field of research, a team of scientists led by Hyung Chun of Yale University has identified that detection of neutrophil levels in plasma can indicate the […]
