Weekly Biotech News of The World
Shrestha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata The long bone of the thigh is called the femur. The end of the femur which is attached to the hip has a ball-like structure which is called the femoral head. The ball is fitted inside a cup-like structure which is made of the pelvic bone and is called the […]
Monika Raman, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore A rich mammalian faunal assemblage, including several ‘condylarth’ species, has been discovered in an early Paleocene (Puercan) location in Wyoming’s Great Divide Basin (GDB). The Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, a peer-reviewed journal, reports the finding of three new species of ancient animals. They are from the birth of […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata Stockpiling of the vaccines and vaccine nationalism: The COVID-19 pandemic represents a serious public health concern. It has an incredibly high spreading rate. Hence, the detection and neutralization of the COVID-19 are of utmost importance. The only way to beat the COVID-19 pandemic is via universal vaccination against Covid-19. However, the […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University Geomagnetic field of the earth The magnetic field of the Earth is roughly a magnetic dipole, with the magnetic field S pole at the geographic north pole and the magnetic field N pole near the geographic south pole. A magnetic field is endlessly long, however, it starts to decrease as it […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University Every sexually reproducing organism has some autosomes and sex chromosomes. The sex chromosomes determine the sex of the organism. In the pair of sex chromosomes, one chromosome comes from the father while the other chromosome comes from the mother. While the number of autosomes remains the same, […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University, Noida The SAGA complex, which includes the histone acetyltransferase GCN5 and serves as a general transcription co-activator in global gene regulation, is evolutionarily conserved from yeast to humans. In a study conducted by Jun Miao along with other researchers, Plasmodium falciparum has a divergent GCN5 complex that includes two plant […]
Saakshi Bangera, DY Patil School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Researchers from Queen Mary University of UCL and London have reported that fetal membranes are capable of healing after injury in a new study. For the normal development of the baby in the womb, the integrity of fetal membranes that enclose the fetus is important. These […]
Madhavi Bhatia, National Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Guwahati What is Single-cell RNA-seq? Single-cell RNA-seq is a method that measures hundreds of gene expressions in thousands of cells that are sampled from a hundred individuals. Single-cell sequencing methods are helpful in solving a variety of biological and medical problems that are present in large-scale data sets […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata It is a necessity for all organisms for preserving energy homeostasis whenever there is a response to nutrient availability. They coordinate systemic energy homeostasis for regulating the balance of catabolism and anabolism through humoral factors. Insulin and counter-regulatory hormones like glucagon have been observed to take part as humoral factors […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College What is DKD? Diabetes is the major cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the United States and across the world. Globally, an estimated 422 million individuals have diabetes, with up to 40% of them developing CKD over their lifespan. Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a pathological phenotype that does […]
