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Salapu Chandralekha, Amity University Kolkata What secret did the Italian doctors uncover to prove that the COVID-19 is a bacterium, not a virus as advocated by the WHO guidelines? Italy was one of the European Nation’s which bore the brunt of COVID-19 pandemic accounting for over for 7.2% of deaths recorded across the Globe with […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Down syndrome (DS), also known as trisomy 21 is the most persistent aneuploidy characterized by a genetic disorder caused due to the triplication of the 21st human chromosome. This syndrome is particularly associated with the development of congenital heart disease, sleep apnoea, obesity, diabetes, premature ageing, and higher sensitivity to […]
Sumedha Guha, Techno India University A team of scientists recently found a metabolism-regulating protein UGP2 to play an essential role in pancreatic cancer growth and proliferation. Pancreatic Ductal Carcinoma or PDAC is the most common type of exocrine cancer that occurs in the pancreas with an occurrence rate of more than 90%. The majority of […]
Soumya Sarathi Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Under drought stress, it is considered a positive feature to maintain standard plant physiological functions. This is because it indicates healthy plant growth under those stressful conditions. This study was performed to determine the role of Bacillus subtilis HAS31, which is a plant-growth-promoting rhizobacterium (PGPR) in plant growth under […]
Saptaparna Pal, Amity University Kolkata Nano sealed motor particles represents a group of efficient molecules that can precisely respond to the biological microenvironment and improves therapeutic results. Hence, a 2D nanosheet based catalytic nanometre with chemotaxis behaviour is designed for enhanced and advanced drug delivery towards the Tumor microenvironment. The 2D structure of nanometre allows […]
–Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata. The wheat and rice THOUSAND GRAIN WEIGHT 6 genes (TaTGW6 and OsTGW6, respectively) are reported in larger wheat and rice grains which are formed by reducing Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) production in developing grains. Although, a critical comparison of data on TaTGW6 and OsTGW6 with other reports on auxin synthesis in […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata Tea- one of the most popular beverages, consumed by people worldwide, is produced from the tea plant (Camellia sinensis L.), a leaf harvested crop which is primarily cultivated in Asia for the production of green, oolong and black teas. Tea cultivation process though commercially vibrant suffers a drawback due to […]
Avipsha Datta, Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta Antibiotics were considered to be “wonder drugs” in the 20th century. But, as days passed, we started the over usage of these medicines and basically helped the bacteria to become pretty clever and evade these wonder drugs, that is, they developed resistance! Antibiotic […]
PRIYANKA CHAKRABORTY, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Recently, researchers from various universities in Spain hypothesized that serum zinc level had a particular influence on COVID-19 patients, further stating it as a useful biomarker in predicting COVID-19 in its’ early stage. In an observational study of 249 COVID-19 patients to identify the severity of the disease and to […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata Scientists have been worried due to the growth of antibiotic resistance among the population for decades. As new antibiotics come into the market the rate of developing antibiotic resistance infection goes on increasing. For about more than 500,000 people die worldwide each year due to antibiotic resistance infection. The researchers […]
