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Aqsa, Jamia Millia Islamia Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that is responsible for causing toxoplasmosis. This protozoan infects humans and other animals as well. Data shows that up to 30% of the world’s population remains chronically infected with this protozoan, but a large number of them do not show any symptoms. Most of […]
Sumedha B S, Bangalore University What is Ubiquitin? Ubiquitin is a small 76-amino acid protein found in eukaryotic cells. They are be found either freely or covalently bound to membrane proteins. It is one of the highly conserved proteins. This means its amino acid sequence is similar-from yeast to animals. It has two functional sites: […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University Research on forensic anthropology has risen as a key factor in the estimation of ancestry. Despite forensic anthropology being controversial for use, ancestry still rules as a crucial parameter. It is used for the estimation of the socio racial categories of law enforcement, anticipated via cranial variation. To examine human physical […]
Shayan Ahmed, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi Basic brain processes include locating and recognising sensory items while navigating the environment. The ability to traverse the environment requires knowledge of the location of sensory elements and the identification of their contemporaneous behavioural relevance. The auditory system computes spatial information in the brain depending on the position […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University As students of life sciences, we have always been told to first inspect carefully then ask questions. Inspecting at an early age takes a lot of patience, still, we held our specimen under the microscope, corrected the alignment of light, turned and tried to understand coarse and fine adjustment, then saw […]
Madhavi Bhatia, NIPER Guwahati The body axis helps in the development of correct positioning of the anatomical structure in animals. The body axis patterning is based on concentration-dependent interpretation of graded morphogen signals like Wnt/β-catenin signaling.β-catenin signaling directs gastrulation and patterns the main body axis. In an embryo, the positioning of all anatomical structures is […]
Nandini Pharasi, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Cancer is a disease in which the body cells grow rapidly, uncontrollably and spread to the other parts of the body, cancer makes the body stop its normal mechanism as the old cell do not die instead of that it starts forming new cells, abnormal cells, and sometimes […]
Shrestha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata Congenital myasthenia is a group of disorders brought about by transformations in genes that are significant for the arrangement, function, and maintenance of neuromuscular synapses. Generally, mutations in genes are recessive and decrease gene action, thereby causing synaptic shortfalls that lead to early-stage structural and functional deficiencies in the neuromuscular […]
Subhajit Nan, Amity University, Kolkata. Researchers in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States have recently made the world’s first fibre computer- a fibre with digital capabilities, which can sense, store, analyse and infer activity after being sewn into a shirt, thereby paving the path for the creation of the first-ever digital […]
Akash Singh, Banaras Hindu University In soil ecosystems, microorganisms play an important role in controlling organic matter breakdown and nutrient cycling. According to the enzyme latch hypothesis, under saturated water table conditions, the activity of oxidative enzymes (e.g. polyphenols) is suppressed due to a lack of oxygen (O2) as a necessary reactant, resulting in an […]
