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Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University “The best way to predict future is to create it.” – Buckminster Fuller. This saying holds power in 2021 as the society along with researchers and scientists all around various nations pave the way to build towards a green sustainable future with zero waste. From Rio Summit 2012, till now, scientists […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata With the advancement in multi-omics and prevalence of high-throughput methods used for characterizing the process of translation, there’s a requirement of back-end functions and streamlined tools for processing as well as analysing the data produced by these assays. The tool should be such that it will reduce the burden of the […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela The anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) plays an important role in the emission of greenhouse gas and represents a primary production pathway that helps in the mobilization of carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen on a global scale. AOM at marine methane seeps has been estimated to consume more or […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University For the past one and a half years, we have been struggling with COVID19. The deadly pandemic has taken millions of lives all over the world. Meanwhile, the huge demand has deaccelerated the vaccine rollout. The plan to deal with COVID19 includes extensive testing, contact tracing, quarantining, […]
Hari Krishnan R, SRM Institute of Science and Technology Many of the fatal infectious diseases caused in humans are “zoonotic”, which means they are transmitted from animals to humans via their consumption or being in close contact. Various human pathogens are yet to be identified which would have the potential to initiate another pandemic, probably […]
Neha khan, Jamia Millia Islamia The Human Genome Project had been started, aiming at curing deadly diseases and making healthcare facilities better. The human genome project (HGP) was launched in the year 1990 and was called a megaproject. It was a collaboration of International, government, and private companies’ effort to map and sequence the entire […]
Anjali Kumari, IILM College of Engineering and Technology The credit for the discovery of Antarctica is typically given to the Europeans but according to new research that is published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the Polynesians discovered Antarctica over 1300 years ago. It is believed that they were among the […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University Noida For a very long time, monoclonal antibodies have been used in various fields (cancer studies) but currently, they are being used to counteract the effects of SARS-CoV-2 and its variant by being an active compound in the vaccine as well as therapeutic drugs. Hence, to understand B cell genomics […]
Monika R, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Polyploidy has played a central role in carving the genetic construction in most plants, particularly angiosperms (flowering plants). There are two main classes of polyploid formation: autopolyploids arise by doubling of similar homologous genomes within one species; in contrast, allopolyploidy (hybrid polyploidy) arise through hybridization which usually occurs […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Antibiotic resistance and its impact: Antibiotics are drugs or chemical substances secreted by certain microorganisms engineered to kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria. Thus, they induce the treatment of bacterial infections. Often when these drugs are overused or in the case of any drug abuse, bacteria develop an antibiotic […]
