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Husna, Amity University Kolkata The world’s first genome-edited tomato has been launched in Japan by Sanatech Seed and its direct consumption has been approved. The Tomato was developed using CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology and it contains four to five times a high level of the amino acid GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) than a regular tomato. The amino […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Coronavirus became a household name, as the pandemic swept people off their feet, locking them in their houses, rendering them sick, leading to death on severe occasions. After months into the pandemic, in December 2020, the government of Israel approved the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination and proclaimed a mass immunization […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta When glaciers melt, the water from the glaciers is channelled downstream, thus feeding the rivers and affecting river temperature along with the aquatic invertebrate biodiversity. Today as we gradually lose glaciers around the world due to climate change, the study of the consequences of this loss is the need of […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata Zoonotic illnesses are those contaminations that can pass between species from animals to mankind, just as from mankind to animals. Most (60.3 percent) arising infections influencing people had an animal source and most of these (71.8 percent) came from natural life, as per a recent report. While COVID-19’s unique leap […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide and is responsible for causing nearly 10 million deaths per annum. The significant reason cancer being so lethal is due to the absence of anti-cancer treatments. Though, very recently researchers have discovered a new plant species having the potential to […]
SHRESTHA DUTTA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Daikenchuto (DKT) is a conventional herbal (Kampo) medication in Japan that involves three therapeutic herbs: ginseng (Panax ginseng), Japanese pepper (Zanthoxylum piperitum) or Chinese pepper (Zanthoxylum bungeanum), and prepared ginger (Zingiber officinale). DKT is made by blending the herbs, then by extraction utilizing boiling water lastly by converting this extract […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata The International Space Station, also known as ISS, is an orbital laboratory located in low-Earth orbit (LEO) that has hosted numerous astronauts for maintenance and scientific experiments in its microgravity environment. Over the last six years, astronauts from various crews have collected samples from eight different locations on the space […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata José M. Polo, PhD, a professor of anatomy and developmental biology at Monash University, discovered a way to generate induced blastoids or iBlastoids that imitates the natural human blastoids; made up of reprogrammed skin cells. Molecular and functional assays were performed to demonstrate that the structures were blastocyst-like structures that […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela An accident in any nuclear facility of the nuclear fuel cycle like a nuclear reactor leads to a large-scale release of radioactivity in the environment causing a great radiation exposure. The shock wave affects humans by rupturing eardrums or lungs. However, there are no fruitful, safe therapies for […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University, Kolkata During fertilisation, when a sperm cell fuses with an egg cell or oocyte from the female it forms a zygote. But there’s an interesting fact to it, oocytes are the largest cell produced by most organisms. In fact in humans, oocytes are comparatively larger than normal body cells. The growth […]
