Weekly Biotech News of The World
Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta Several months into the pandemic and the coronavirus is not only reaching into remote areas but also to regions that had previously been battered by the virus. This has led to a recent rise in the number of cases in the U.S. The last seven-day average for new cases is […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Breast cancer, a term which scares most women, a type of cancer which changes the life of a patient even those who are survivors, is a much-studied and researched topic around the globe. The early symptoms might include the appearance of a lump at any portion of the breast, blood […]
Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata PSGs (Pregnancy specific β-1-glycoproteins) generally regulate innate and adaptive immunity. Not only that, during pregnancy when the maternal immune system undergoes alloimmunization due to fetal antigens, Pregnancy specific β-1-glycoproteins play an important role in the formation of feto-maternal tolerance. One of the many factors, the ratio between anti-inflammatory (Treg cells) […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University Kolkata Although inhibition of T cell co-inhibitory receptors has brought about cancer therapy, mechanisms governing their expression on human T cells have not been explained. Type 1 interferon (IFN-I) regulates T cell immunity in viral infection, autoimmunity, cancer, and may enhance induction of T cell exhaustion in chronic viral infection. To […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata The human body utilizes the veins to transport nutrients and oxygen throughout the whole body. Likewise, plants also have a similar kind of vascular system consisting of highly organized veins which transport nutrients throughout the body. Scientists found that the phytohormone auxin, which has its significance in plant growth and […]
Sayak Biswas, Amity University Kolkata When we first of think of SARS-CoV-2, the first thing that comes to our mind is the pandemic and the complications caused due to the virus. SARS-CoV-2 is a novel virus and not much is known about its nature, despite the pandemic being in our lives now for close to […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Isn’t cancer known to be a disease of the cell that is caused by the mutation of the genes that control proliferation and differentiation? Ever wondered what could be the physics of cancer? Recent observations have shown that the microenvironment (immediate small-scale environment) surrounding the cancer cell has a […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela DNA–protein crosslinks induce SOS response as it is mutagenic and 5-azacytidine induces bacterial damage and stimulate homologous recombination. All these consequences of DNA–protein crosslinks and 5-azacytidine were investigated on E.coli DNA–protein crosslinks (DPCs) are mainly formed when a nucleotide residue on DNA forms a covalent bond with a […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata Present transmission rates of SARS-CoV-2 are still on the rise, with second waves of infections being faced by many countries. Rapid SARS-CoV-2 whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is a massive tool for tracking and assessing transmission links but is not so readily available. In a study conducted by a group of researchers, […]
DEEPON CHAKRABORTY, UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA Interpretation of a large number of genetic variants identified from sequencing is one of the breakthroughs of clinical genetics. It is also termed as genetic screening. The main challenge is the identification of the effect of amino acid substituting missense variation on protein structure and function. Its several applications are […]
