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Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata It is about a year now that the SARS-CoV-2 has disturbed and changed the daily lifestyle of people all over the world. A vaccine against this virus is what we are hoping for, but that too comes with a drawback that it won’t be able to provide a long-term immunity […]
RUCHITA KARMAKAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Childbirth is often regarded as a life-changing event, one that is of great concern to the mother and child involved. Sometimes, this phenomenon becomes rather disheartening. It has been observed quite often that due to various unforeseen fatal complexities, these manifest into a disastrous outcome such as when the mother […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata The “US-UK” triad, Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice, have been awarded jointly, the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. Scientists will share the prestigious Nobel prize sum of 10 million Swedish kronor (about $1.1 million, 950,000 euros). Hepatitis […]
Shrayana Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata To ensure a stable food supply, it is necessary to protect crops against pests and diseases. Roughly 95% of food comes from organic cultivation, using chemical pesticides to preserve the quality of the crops. But organic pesticides are increasingly being pursued as an option as well. Some organic pesticides contain […]
– Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata Sonification is a branch of the auditory display which can convert information into nonspeech audio. A web tool made it possible. This web tool can generate audio using algorithms abiding the biological rules. The broadly represented two modes operated by the web tool are translation and transcription. In translation […]
-Anuska Sen, Team bioXone Neanderthals also called Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis are an extinct group of early humans, which was existent almost 40,000 years back. These individuals lived in Eurasia until they became extinct and there are pieces of evidence that till date a certain percentage of Europeans and South Asians are genetically linked to these Neanderthals. […]
-Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Fay Weldon once said, “Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity”. Nature too has its own sound which is exclusive for each kind of species and is the unique kind of communication […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata 13 people from 8 states have been infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella muenster linked to bearded dragons, as of 25th September, according to the latest information released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Pet bearded dragons are likely the source of this outbreak as shown […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata To avert the spread of the pandemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), a successful vaccine is needed. In an examination directed recently, safety, tolerability, and neutralizer reaction information from an on-going placebo-controlled treatment observer-blinded phase 1/2 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine trial BNT162b1, a lipid nanoparticle (LNP) nucleoside-modified […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata With the expansion of the ongoing pandemic, there have been increasing reports from Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America describing children and adolescents with COVID-19 associated multisystem inflammatory conditions. Pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome, also known as Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), is a rare but perilous complication which […]
