Weekly Biotech News of The World
-Sayak Biswas, Amity University Kolkata Cells are made up of a specifically hostile environment. This hostile environment contains numerous immune sensors that help to detect infections caused by viruses. Production of interferons (IFN) takes place and the intracellular DNA plays a massive role in the inducing of the IFN. The cytosolic DNA gets recognized by […]
-Shrayana Ghosh, Amity University A recent study conducted at Yale University compared the immune system cells in the spinal fluid of healthy people and people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). It was reported that an inflammatory autoimmune response within the CNS (Central Nervous System) has been identified that is associated with neurodegenerative disorders such as MS. […]
-Biswadeep Sen, Amity University Kolkata We all can agree to the fact that despite the advancement in the treatments and technology, Lung Cancer is still, by far, the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Amongst the multiple oncogenic driver alterations discovered the one with the most frequent aberration is KRAS mutation. To make matters worse, […]
In the last decade it has been seen that cancer has become really widespread, yet it has got no complete treatment as such till date. However, the therapeutic approach “chemotherapy” has saved the lives of millions. With the advent of the concept of “chemotherapeutic resistance”, the progress in the field of treatment of cancer has […]
– Sagnik Nag, Amity University Kolkata Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) protects the CNS from physical injuries as well as portrays immuno-surveillance over a pathogenic attack. In recent scientific research conducted by Pappalardo et al. profiled the T-cells present in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of a healthy individual. It is known that T-cells ( be it CD4+ or […]
-Srilagna Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata The novel Coronavirus continues to spread massively around the world. Globally, Scientists have been working round-the-clock in understanding the virus, hereby, hoping to put a stopper in death! Recently researchers from Kentucky College of Medicine had conducted a study with the blood of 30 Covid-19 patients divided into groups – […]
–Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata From alleviating depression to healing wounds from curing sleep-disturbances to boosting immunity, light therapy finds considerable applications in the medical field. But can it relate itself to the symptoms of “shaking palsy”-Parkinson’s disease? Neurosurgeon Alim-Louis Benabid of the Climate Institute led a team that expects light to be a weapon […]
-Anwita Sarkar, Team bioXone Thomas Dekker once popularly remarked that “Sleep is the golden chain that binds health and our bodies together”. Dekker’s statement was indeed a true one. Modern-day living across the world does not embrace the importance of sleep and has taken its functions and needs for granted. The necessity of sleep can […]
-Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata While many developmental processes have evolutionarily preserved the molecular and cellular mechanisms, the pace at which they operate varies considerably between species. The pace of embryonic development determines the rate of individual processes of differentiation and the overall development duration. Comparing conserved and well-characterized processes of development in different species […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata The Chinese authorities attested that a various number of people in northwest China have tested positive for brucellosis, a bacterial disease which is supposedly infected through livestock carrying the bacteria Brucella, due to an outbreak that generated from a leak at a biopharmaceutical factory in the previous year. The factory […]
