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Shrestha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — the perfect indication to get a mammogram as it is essential to identify breast cancer as early as possible through routine checkups. Breast cancer survivors and patients can get stronger and healthier — intellectually and physically — with physical therapy, as indicated by […]
Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata Plant parasitism is an occurrence by which the parasite plant latches onto and soak up water and nutrients from another host plant, with the help of an organ called the “haustorium.” Once the haustorium forms, specific enzymes then help in setting up a relationship between the tissues of the parasite […]
Soumya Sarathi Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Virologists were working on two areas of SARS-CoV-2 research at KU Leuven Rega Institute. In one line developing a vaccine that can prevent infection, and in another line of research, they are thriving in search of existing drugs by which the amount of virus can be reduced […]
Arpita Adhikary, Amity University Kolkata Circadian rhythm is a 24-hour biological, natural rhythm that controls various regulatory internal mechanism including homeostasis, sleep-wake cycle etc. Different external (jet lag, night shift work, late-night eating) and internal factor (gene mutation, ageing, insomnia) are responsible for disruption of the circadian rhythm. Though rare disruption manages to keep the […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata After the recovery of President Donald Trump from Covid-19 using a similar therapy as of the antibody medicine from AstraZeneca Plc, the company has started its late-stage trials for the same against COVID-19. The medicine will undergo two trials on more than 60000 people starting soon. Astra has also planned […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University Kolkata Zika virus (ZIKV) is a teratogenic arthropod-borne flavivirus. Its vertical transmission can result in foetal injury, which might clinically manifest in a pattern of signs and symptoms recognized as Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS). It is marked by structural defects like morphological alterations to the limbs, eyes and brain as well […]
RUCHITA KARMAKAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Researchers from Kingston University have found out an effective, natural eye drop for the infants who are subjected to a bacterial infection that causes blindness, without causing any kind of irritation. ‘Gonorrhoea’ which is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by the bacteria “Neisseria gonorrhoeae” is resistant to the antibiotics […]
Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta MicroRNA is a non-protein-coding RNA molecule about 18-22 nucleotides long which post-transcriptionally regulates various gene expression through genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. They have several target genes on mRNA and the complementarity of microRNA-mRNA is the basis of gene silencing either by inhibiting the translation process or by directly degrading the […]
Arjama Roy, Amity University Kolkata Endometrial cancer is the foremost common type of cancer that affects the feminine reproductive tract. It grows rapidly and tends to spread to other parts of the body. Earlier, the causative agent of endometrial carcinoma wasn’t known aside from the transcriptional effects of steroid hormones. As a result of which limited therapeutic options were provided to the diagnosed women. Recent work […]
– Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata Everyone loves tasty food; it gives us a unique satisfaction. Often than not tasty food means high-calorie foods. That’s one of many reasons why we tend to choose or accept an unhealthy diet and blame ourselves for that. In a recent study, scientists revealed that may not be the […]
