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Husna, Amity University Kolkata An autoimmune disease is a condition in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the healthy cells of the body. Children with autoimmune diseases often require treatment with immunosuppressive drugs. So, in these patients, the efficacy and safety of vaccination, particularly the live attenuated vaccines remain a concern. As the live attenuated […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata. It has always been a critical challenge to establish an adequate vascularisation of 3D bioengineered tissues. A vascular scaffold using the vascular corrosion casting technique was fabricated earlier that provided a lookalike 3D geometry of native kidney vasculature. In this, the collagen vascular scaffold with the restricted release of VEGF […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata Interspecies chimeras provide a unique platform for discovery and clinical use by probing early embryogenesis and regeneration. Interspecies chimeras are useful through interspecies blastocyst complementation to study human development and disease and also to produce functional human tissues. Cell competition involves a preserved fitness-sensing process during which adjoining less-fit but viable […]
Shrestha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most quickly spreading chronic liver sickness. It is closely identified with metabolic disorder and its related conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and hyperuricemia. Past studies have uncovered a connection between hyperuricemia and the seriousness of liver damage in NAFLD. A […]
Sagnik Nag , Amity University, Kolkata Hemodialysis is a treatment procedure wherein the blood is filtered from metabolic wastes and water, exactly mimicking the work of our healthy kidneys. Recently Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have claimed to discover that the carbon nanotube membrane pores would enable ultra-rapid dialysis processes which would efficiently reduce […]
CAMELIA BHATTACHARYYA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA HIV or Human Immunodeficiency virus was first discovered in the early 1980s. It later became an epidemic and it still scares people since there’s still no vaccine known to protect us against it. Does that mean that the scientists and researchers are not trying to even make one? Well no. […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata Synthetic plastics have become an interminable hazard to the environment since the beginning of their use. Synthetic plastics contain such polymers which on interaction with water, generate toxic chemicals that are discharged into the surrounding environment. Although biodegradable products like sugarcane have been utilized for producing an alternative, scientists are […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata. The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine fails to prevent mild and moderate cases of the South African coronavirus strain. The University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, which conducted the in which they stated that the vaccine provided minimal protection against mild-moderate COVID-19 infection. The data, which has not yet undergone peer review appeared to confirm the theoretical […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela The global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 is still a threat to the human population. As of February 2020, more than 102 million people globally have been infected, and over 2.21 million deaths reported. COVID-19 pandemic has a profuse impact on the economic as well as […]
Shrayana Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Recently researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have discovered a way to mark individual messenger RNA molecules inside a tissue sample using a new methodology for expanding tissue and then sequencing the RNA. This approach provides a unique snapshot of the genes that are expressed in various parts of […]
