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Madhavi Bhatia,NIPER Guwahati The aging process is characterized by a progressive accumulation of damage, which leads to loss of physiological integrity, impaired function and, increased susceptibility to death. Earlier, it was thought that the aging process affects the entire organism except for the germline. Because the lineage is immortal in the sense that the germline […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University A recently published new study states that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine immune system reactions have proved to offer long-lasting protection against COVID-19. mRNA vaccines have created more and better germinal centre B cell responses, thus indicating that the immunity system would be much more impactful and offer long-lasting […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata The finding of the oldest fungus species parasitizing fossilized ant Fossils aid in deciphering a huge amount of prehistoric life, although everything cannot be interpreted from them. A research team from the Integrative Biology department of Oregon State University (OSU) has discovered a novel fungal genus and species in an […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University All over the world research is currently focused on the development of a drug that might help cure COVID19. At the moment we do not have any treatment for COVID19. Vaccines are the only way the chain of transmission can be broken. Throughout the pandemic, various drugs […]
Aparna Pandey, IILM Academy of Higher learning and Education, Greater Noida Extracellular vesicles are small sheaths particles derived from various cell types. Extracellular vesicles are lipid bilayer-enclosed, cytosol-containing spheres that are liberated by all eukaryotes and prokaryotic cells into the extracellular environment. Small RNAs plays an important role in different cellular processes like differentiation in […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University What is Cholera? Cholera is a diarrheal sickness caused by the toxigenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae infecting the intestine. Each year, an estimated 2.9 million cases and 95,000 deaths occur in the population worldwide. The World Health Organization estimates that 1.3 million to 4 million people are infected with cholera each year, […]
Mustafa Vora, DY Patil University Navi Mumbai The morphology of the bird plays a role in the efficiency and speed of flight. Since the world is warming up, migratory birds have begun to migrate early during the spring. Scientists observed that these migratory birds have smaller size and longer wings than before. They believed that […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata Marine biological invasion is the process by which a foreign species gets introduced to a new environment where it can negatively alter and invade the native species. One of the major challenges is to understand the cause of spatial variation in biological invasions across local-to-global scales. “What makes a successful invasion?”, […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University Noida Diabetes has been a great area of concern for many people especially due to changing lifestyles as well as due to genetic reasons. Type 2 diabetes as of now affects 10% of the population worldwide and currently, the treatments which are prescribed by doctors involve lifestyle changes, insulin shot […]
Monika R, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Amazonian forests harbour the world’s richest tropical biodiversity but have been relentlessly cleared and fragmented over the last four decades. This is mainly because over the decades, hydropower complexes have been built in several hydrographic basins of Brazil including the Amazon. Hydroelectric power generation is the most vital […]
