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CAMELIA BHATTACHARYYA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA “Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”- how often we have read and answered it in our 10th standard before we understood its role in detail. One of its major functions includes ATP production for which the first line is applicable. Few other important roles of these cytoplasmic cellular organelles […]
Koustav Maiti, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara A normal cell always has the characteristics of regulated cell division, proliferation and lastly undergoes apoptosis (programmed cell death). But when the cell does not have control over its division, it causes a tumor. When the neoplastic cells are clustered together but don’t spread anywhere else within […]
Shrayana Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a marine bacterium which when ingested through raw or undercooked shellfish such as oysters and mussels leads to human gastroenteritis and according to recent studies can go dormant for a while and then get active afterward. Since Vibrio parahaemolyticus usually grows in tropical and warm temperature conditions, under […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Hematopoietic stem cell differentiation to erythroid cells occurs within the bone marrow and the process of mature RBC formation is known as erythropoiesis. This process mainly depends on specific cell interactions within the bone marrow. Erythroid differentiation in the bone marrow occurs on erythroblast islands. CD14+ monocyte-derived macrophages […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata We are all aware of the deadly coronavirus that has continued to widen its domain of symptoms. Since the outbreak of the disease, unusual symptoms have come to the surface and wreak havoc in the public domain. Recently, a scientist stated that one of the unusual warning signs of […]
Sristi Raj Rai, Amity University Kolkata Handicapped microbes that survive drug attacks are more dangerous than the living ones, as very soon they develop resistance to that specific drug. Macrolides, a class of broad-spectrum antibiotics that has a macrocyclic structure are produced by strains of Streptomyces. These are generally prescribed in case of bacterial infections […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University Kolkata A new study published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS), claims that a woman’s menopause stage is a key factor that can affect cognitive performance, and declines in memory may persist in the post-menopause period and, contrary to previous studies, shows that certain cognitive […]
-Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University Kolkata Coronavirus 2019 – the episode is a worldwide pandemic brought about by (SARS-CoV-2) which at first analyzed in Chinese patients of Hubei’s Wuhan city toward the beginning of December 2019. COVID-19 has been proclaimed a worldwide wellbeing catastrophe by World Health Organization (WHO) as the illness quickly communicated human-to-human and […]
Sumedha Guha, Techno India University One of the growing challenges of the modern world is the rise in the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Two main causes of this problem can be traced back to the overuse of antibiotics as prescription drugs and rise in the usage of antibiotics as selection markers in laboratory experiments. Michelle […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata A genomic study of skin cells shows that there is a wide range of age-independent mutations in the normal number of somatic mutations that arise from exposure to UV light. The human skin is constantly subjected to damage of DNA due to the environment, which leads to the accumulation of […]
