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Deivayanai V.C, Rajalakshmi Engineering College Niche theory and modeling define the environment required by an organism for its metabolism and reproduction. The animals and plants’ niches are well studied and characterized but microbial niches are comparatively not much well explored and classified. Many microbial niches cause harmful diseases such as pathogenic diseases, valley fever, etc. […]
Arka Acharyya, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara Researcher Jun Hee Lee and his team at the University of Michigan developed a new technique to visualize using high-throughput sequencing instead of a microscope. They named it technology Sequence-Scope technology or Seq-Scope. The development of light and electron microscopes has a profound role in the study […]
Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University, Kolkata Scientists at the University of Basel reported two newly discovered glial cells that can revolutionize our understanding of brain functions. The human brain is very complex and the way it functions is even more complicated. So far, we don’t even know exactly how much we have an understanding of the […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela In the last two decades, various coronavirus diseases have become a major public health issue, starting with the SARS-CoV pandemic in 2002 through 2003, then the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) epidemic in 2012, and current the COVID-19 pandemic. In all the cases, it has been reported […]
Nandini Pharasi, Jaypee Institute of information technology Thomas Jefferson provided the first evidence that RNA segment can be written back to DNA which is a great challenge to central dogma. Each cell in our body has a specific mechanism that is it undergoes duplication of DNA to form new cells. The enzyme behind this is […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University, Kolkata Severe respiratory disease coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) results in the extensively devastating disease, COVID-19, of the recent century. One of the unsolved scientific concerns around SARS-CoV-2 is the animal lineage of this virus. Bats and pangolins are acknowledged as considerably reasonable reservoir hosts that harbor the highly related SARS-CoV-2 related viruses. Identification […]
Saptaparna Pal, Amity University Kolkata The Union Health Ministry’s Directorate General of Health Sciences (DGHS) has proposed revised Covid-19 guidelines and removed all medicines except antipyretic (fever) and antitussive (cold) for mild and asymptomatic cases. The revised Covid-19 guidelines issued on 27 May 2021 dropped all medicines that the doctors have been prescribing even to […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Growing antimicrobial resistance is one of the major threats to the world. It has been estimated that over 10 million deaths each year by 2050 if no action is taken. The World Health Organization (WHO) also apprises that by 2030, drug-resistant diseases could force up to 24 million […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University, Kolkata The history of blood donation goes back further than you would possibly expect. World Blood Donor Day (commonly abbreviated as WBDD) is celebrated on the birth anniversary of Karl Landsteiner, who was born on 14 June 1868. He was awarded the honor in 1930 for his discovery of the ABO […]
Varuni Ankolekar, Clinical Data Manager at Quartesian Researchers have identified that cells have their own internal gauge to monitor their own size. The key protein behind this, or in other words, “cells’ internal gauge” is KRP4 protein, which is responsible for regulating cell size. What is a Cell? What are the different components of a […]
