Weekly Biotech News of The World
Sambit Majumdar, Amity University Kolkata HIV i.e. Human Immunodeficiency Viruses are two species of Lentivirus that infect humans. It is a virus that attacks the cells in the immune system. This virus destroys a type of white blood cell in the immune system called a T helper cell, also mention as a CD4 cell. This […]
Arjama Roy, Amity University Kolkata A woman’s menstrual cycle is usually for 28 days. However, this may vary from person to person. If the length of the menstrual cycle is more than 35 days, or if the duration varies, then we call it irregular periods. It may happen due to hormonal imbalance, changes in contraception, […]
SAGNIK NAG, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Our immune system plays an imperative role in combating the uncertainties of COVID-19. The most concerning fact regarding the ailment is its alarming range of severity – from being asymptotic to completely fatal. Standing today we know all the precautions that are to be followed during this pandemic situation, we […]
Raddur Samaddar, Team bioXone The pandemic is going about its length and breadth, in India, we have 9,43,990 active cases as of 2nd October 2020. The serological activity and also the cross-reactivity of the diseases are a major concern at this moment. A commercial SARS-CoV-2 ELISA test was used for patients diagnosed as Dengue, Zika, […]
Anwita Sarkar, Team BioXone Based on what we know so far about the complications of COVID-19, it frequently involves complications that bear similarities to autoimmune disorders. Up to now, there are little reports on possible IgA mediated autoimmune responses. A study was conducted to determine the association of COVID-19 with vigorous total IgA responses. It […]
Shrestha Dutta, Amity university Kolkata Working memory is imperative for a successful errand – the capacity to hold information in our minds lies at the core of almost everything we do. In a paper in Cell, the scientists present proof that working memory isn’t perfectly bound to one brain area, but requires the simultaneous activity […]
-Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Researchers have discovered that a drug, Catalase, might be the solution to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Catalase is a naturally occurring enzyme having the potential as a therapeutic drug treat COVID-19 symptom and suppress the replication of the virus inside the body. Catalase is produced naturally and employed by […]
Sristi Raj Rai, Amity University Kolkata Throughout the evolution of the primate’s brain from the rear end to the foremost part – the prefrontal cortex (PFC) makes Homo sapiens the most intelligent species known on this planet. PFC, the rational part of the brain has evolutionarily specialized cognitive abilities such as complex decision making. Due […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Severity and death from Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) are associated with the older population; testing such vaccine candidates is important to prevent infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A phase 1, open-label trial with an escalated dose of messenger RNA vaccine, mRNA-1273, which encodes the stabilized prefusion […]
RUCHITA KARMAKAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA BET (Bromodomain and extra terminal domain) proteins are described to be epigenetic and anti-cancer drug targets. This was the first-in-human study that judged the pharmacokinetics and prior activity of ODM-20, the inhibitor of BET in patients having solid tumours. The main objective was to determine the tolerability, dose-limiting toxicities (DLT), […]
