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Shagufta Hasan, Amity University Kolkata The world has had hard knocks with COVID-19 vaccines but no drug seems to give full coverage against the virus, but now, it may hope for good news. A new drug, Molnupiravir, has been developed by Merck & Co. Inc in association with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, a biotechnology company, focused on […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming a greater threat to human health day by day, necessitating the development of new antibiotics. Bacteriophages and their potential as antibacterial agents to combat pathogenic bacteria have sparked renewed interest. This is largely due to the phage’s ability to cause a cellular breakdown in the bacterial […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata A nanoparticle is a source of matter whose diameter lies in the range of 1 to 100 meters. They are interesting substances and are very useful in the field of biomaterial sciences. Graphene flakes are one of the most perfect nanoparticles, they are effective, reversible, and have non-harmful action, but […]
Sristi Raj Rai, Amity University Kolkata Energy is a transferable property of a body that can neither be created nor destroyed. It is the energy that is required to carry out any kind of work and has various forms (potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, biological, etc). Keeping the transferable property in mind, nano engineers from […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata In almost two years, after evolving a human cerebral organoids system to work Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), researchers have further studied a model to screen drugs for budding CJD treatment. Human Cerebral Organoids are small bundles of human synapses generated using human skin cells. They range from the size of […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Knowledge is a huge thing wrapped up in a single word. As the world is changing on a daily basis, so is the knowledge about a topic. There are still several questions to be answered and that’s exactly what brings scientists and researchers in the framework to search for unanswered […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Insects come under the Phylum Arthropod, ironically the largest phylum in the Animal Kingdom. Over the past several decades the number of species has declined. Initially, it was believed that this was happening due to habitat loss or excessive use of pesticides, but it came off as a bit of […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Nowadays abdominal surgery is very common and many patients undergo this operation to remove internal scar tissue. This scar is the accumulation of the macrophage which is a protective immune cell. But there are many postsurgical complications. Lysis of adhesions destroys the scar tissue resulting in abdominal and […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) has approved the most expensive drug of ₹18 crores (£1.79 million) per dose to cure a rare genetic disorder. The drug Zolgensma, manufactured by Novartis Gene Therapies can treat Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) which is a rare and often fatal genetic disease that causes paralysis […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata Over the past 20 years or more, there has been a lot of damage done to the corals, due to the warming of seas which led to bleaching (a process where corals lose their algal partners that are required for their survival). Corals have also been attacked due to the […]
