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Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Nitrogen fixation is a term we often use while mentioning legumes. Legumes are plants that contain Rhizobium bacteria inside their root nodules. These bacteria help in converting nitrogen into nitrites and nitrates which are further used by the plant. This entire process is how nitrogen fixation takes place. This process […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University Kolkata. From using wheels and carts to smartphones and airplanes, each year this day acknowledges the technological achievements that keep on changing our lives on a daily basis. We cannot imagine a single day without technology. From health care, agricultural to educational sector and entertainment, food services and security, we continue […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata A new species of centipede belonging to the genus Scolopendra has been discovered by a team of researchers from Japan. They were found living in the forests of Ryukyu Archipelago and Taiwan. The Genus Scolopendra comes under the family Scolopenridae and consists of a large number of tropical centipedes. The […]
Koustav Maiti, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara Many and different types of pathogens are found in the world that can infect and cause severe diseases in plants. This kind of infection or disease can reduce crop yields in the plants. The pathogens discharge effector proteins into plant cells during the infection. Some effector proteins […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata In an attempt to investigate how the monkey embryos and human embryos function alongside, scientists discovered the world’s first monkey embryos containing human cells. Fascinating, right? The embryos were derived from a macaque and then injected with human stem cells in the lab, these were then allowed to grow […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata A typical kitchen scrap in Africa—shells of ostrich eggs—is presently unscrambling the secret of when these progressions occurred, giving a course of events to probably the first Homo sapiens who settled down to use marine food assets along the South African coast over 100,000 years prior. Geochronologists have built up […]
Sagnik Nag , Amity University, Kolkata Currently, India as a developing nation with an average population of 1.34 billion, is fighting a battle against the lethal Coronavirus. Swift and agile efforts to mitigate the health effects of COVID-19 by the state and central governments are yielding some positive results. This pandemic has been a catastrophe […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Researchers discovered a new approach to cereal plant breeding that makes them continuously reorganize themselves (global coherence) and takes into account the internal ‘calculator’ of plant seeds. The approach basically includes unintended changes in the plant when genetically manipulated by the plant breeders. It is expected that the method […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata The purpose of living life is not just to be happy or to be successful in a particular field but, to be honourable and to be able to empathize with the people suffering around you. That happiness and pleasure which you get after helping a needy person can’t be counted on […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata One of the main functions a cell performs is the synthesis of proteins. This is done with the help of a set of factors called “transcription factors”. A team of researchers from Uppasala University have succeeded in studying transcription factors that are several billion years old. The studies helped them […]
