Weekly Biotech News of The World
PRIYANKA CHAKRABORTY, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Scientists extracted remains from the Egg Mountain in Western Montana and studied the fossils of 22 individuals Filikomys primaeval (which translates to “youthful, friendly mouse”). The remains were about 75.5 million years old typically stuck together in groups of two to five, with at least 13 samples clustered within a […]
Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta Cigarette smoking is one of the major risk factors and causes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Cigarette smoking accounts for almost 90% of COPD risk. Smoking can destroy the lung parenchyma and also contribute to the development of emphysema in which the walls of the air sacs(alveoli) in the […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata Retinoic acid (RA) is a primary bioactive metabolite found in vitamin A. It induces various important effects in cell growth and differentiation for both embryonic development and adult physiology. So, the retinoids have a crucial function in human physiology including fertilization, foetal development, they can also modulate immunity and vision and […]
Sumedha Guha, Techno India University In a recent study conducted on lung samples obtained from 79 patients who died of COVID-19, researchers from the Far Eastern Federal University in Russia discovered the SARS-CoV-2 virus can not only damage red blood cells (RBCs) but also prevent the new formation of key red blood cells (namely, Erythrocytes). […]
Arjama Roy, Amity University Kolkata The toxicity of ionizing radiation has been known for almost as long as ionizing radiation itself. High-dose radiation is related to the induction of chronic as well as acute radiation syndromes which may be further characterized into hematopoietic, gastrointestinal, and cerebrovascular syndromes. The intestine is the prime place for gut microbiota as […]
PRAGYA SANTRA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Female deaths caused due to breast cancer (BC) is becoming one of the major parameters for increasing female mortality rate. There are many factors leading to increasing in the BC and tumours. Meta-analysis studies have focused in inverse relationships between vitamin D status and BC occurrence. Minimal level of vitamin […]
AISHILA KAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Cancer begins when cells in the body start to grow uncontrollably. The most important utility for the lung was maintaining a stream utilizing oxygen within the whole body. Lung cancer is a single hazardous problem, which might present in small and in the nonsmall cell too. But it is normally […]
Shrestha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata ConCysFind is a Java-based pipeline instrument that uses BioJava as a web-based tool to recognize preserved Amino acids such as cysteine, tryptophan, serine, threonine, tyrosine, and methionine, etc. ConCysFind assesses numerous arrangements considering the proteome of 21 plant species. This model investigation aimed at Cy’s as an evolutionarily preserved target […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata Human Papillomavirus (HPV) related head and neck cancer is identified as a distinct tumor entity with an elevated incidence reported for several countries. These tumors arise from squamous cells, ordinarily in the oropharynx. In contrast to other risk factors that are associated with cancer, HPV related cancer is driven by […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata A study carried out at Houston Methodist Hospital and UT Austin involving around 5000 COVID-19 patients found that genetic mutations are getting accumulated in the causative virus which is making it more contagious. Located in the spike protein, the mutation is called D614G according to the peer-reviewed journal Ambio. Random genetic […]
