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Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta Cancer Immunotherapy work by helping the immune system to function in an efficient manner to fight cancer cells. For the immune system to start its response, it must first be able to identify and differentiate between self-part of your own body and non-self-foreign/antigen. Cancer Immunotherapy is generally divided in two […]
PRAGYA SANTRA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Mutation and copy number variants (CNV) are a great risk-factor for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), schizophrenia (SZ), and Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disorder (ADHD). But its association with functional brain connectivity (FC) is unknown. FC-changes may not surely represent an intermediate brain phenotype but a secondary impact of psychiatric illnesses. Individuals with a high […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata Uncorrected refractive errors (URE) are a common cause of vision loss in children and affects almost 12.8 million children worldwide. Myopia (short-sightedness) is the most common eye-defect which can be severe if not corrected and 80-90% urban children suffer from myopic vision due to lack of time spent outdoors. Hypermetropia (long-sightedness) […]
Sampriti Roy, Asutosh College, University of Calcutta SARS-CoV-2, the talk of the town (read “world”), still lacks information related to its origin and exact mechanism. The virus, found to cause DAD (diffuse alveolar damage), leads to respiratory failure which appears to be the common mechanism of death in patients with severe COVID-19 infection. However, with […]
Anwesha Chatterjee, Amity University Kolkata The novel Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2) infection which is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic is expecting an adverse effect on the progression of multiple cancers, i.e. prostate cancer, due to the transpiring cytokine storm associated with oncogenic signalling. Cancer progression can be prevented at an early stage by blocking SARS-COV-2 infection […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is separated from other anxiety disorders and classified under the new category of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (OCRDs). Hence the treatment of Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is different, and the neuroanatomical target of therapy should also be unique as compared to other anxiety disorders. The Centres for Disease Control […]
Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta An American biotechnology company ‘Moderna’, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts focuses on the discovery and development of drugs in addition to vaccine technologies. They exclusively use messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and designs vaccines to create a completely new generation of transformative medicines. Against COVID-19, Moderna has developed its mRNA vaccine candidate […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata Potassium (K) is the most abundant cellular cation, required in large amounts by plants. It serves as a regulatory role of osmotic potential in cells. K fertilization is used in alleviating the negative effects of water stress in many crops. High K level increases the root diameter and dry matter. […]
Arjama Roy, Amity University Kolkata Strigolactones are plant hormones that stimulate branching in plants. They trigger the germination of parasitic plant seed. Root parasites are threat to agricultural production. Recent work reveals that the utilization of strigolactones could be expected to produce an effective and efficient method for root parasites regulation as a suicidal germination […]
Biswadeep Sen, Amity University Kolkata Recent studies show that Inflammation and Carcinogenic processes are interconnected. Not just because both induce DNA instability, but both are driven by the same pathways (like NF-kB, STAT3, mTOR and MAPKs). The pro-inflammatory cytokines like IL-6, IL-1β, TNF-α and IL-10 mould our immune responses and they are controlled by the […]
