Weekly Biotech News of The World
– Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata Sonification is a branch of the auditory display which can convert information into nonspeech audio. A web tool made it possible. This web tool can generate audio using algorithms abiding the biological rules. The broadly represented two modes operated by the web tool are translation and transcription. In translation […]
-Anuska Sen, Team bioXone Neanderthals also called Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis are an extinct group of early humans, which was existent almost 40,000 years back. These individuals lived in Eurasia until they became extinct and there are pieces of evidence that till date a certain percentage of Europeans and South Asians are genetically linked to these Neanderthals. […]
-Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Fay Weldon once said, “Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity”. Nature too has its own sound which is exclusive for each kind of species and is the unique kind of communication […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata 13 people from 8 states have been infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella muenster linked to bearded dragons, as of 25th September, according to the latest information released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Pet bearded dragons are likely the source of this outbreak as shown […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata To avert the spread of the pandemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), a successful vaccine is needed. In an examination directed recently, safety, tolerability, and neutralizer reaction information from an on-going placebo-controlled treatment observer-blinded phase 1/2 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine trial BNT162b1, a lipid nanoparticle (LNP) nucleoside-modified […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata With the expansion of the ongoing pandemic, there have been increasing reports from Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America describing children and adolescents with COVID-19 associated multisystem inflammatory conditions. Pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome, also known as Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), is a rare but perilous complication which […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Researchers at Rockefeller University had found a gene having vitality for short-term memory despite being functional in that part of the brain which has no association with memory. Previous studies on short-term memory say that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) generally comprises of all the neural activity, but recent model studies […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata Breast cancer has become one of the common diseases affecting both men and women worldwide, though most common in women as of yet. There are multifactorial reasons for the formation of breast cancer, depending on the type of breast cancer. A common trait observed in all cancer patients is an […]
RUCHITA KARMAKAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA A recently reported case was taken where a 40-year-old US women’s brain lining was punctured after her nasal swab test for COVID-19 which ultimately lead to the leakage of the brain fluid through her nose, and eventually putting her at risk of life-threatening infection. The patient had an undetected scarce […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata “Is eating healthy food enough to maintain proper body weight?”, “Is obesity genetic?” “why is obesity a problem?”, these are a few questions most of us search on the internet every day, sometimes due to the fear of the diseases which follows obesity while other times due to maintaining physical […]
