Weekly Biotech News of The World
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata COVID-19 has already taken over 4 million lives around the world, hence testing is essential for understanding the virus and controlling its spread. Currently, the tests are restricted by two factors, time taken and the accuracy required for analyzing a sample. The third factor which poses a challenge towards the […]
Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida Mental health therapy sessions: What would you do if a robot werewolf was circling you in a dark alley and snapping its jaws at you? The issue of robotic werewolves is not something you’ll face every day, but more counsellors are using tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) in […]
Aqsa, Jamia Millia Islamia Mechanism of sensory neurons- The touch receptors present on our skin generate the signals received by an external stimulus. These generated signals travel along the sensory nerves, which remain connected to the sensory neurons in the spinal cord. These signals then move to the thalamus and finally to the rest of […]
Monika Raman, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Bees have supplied products that are helpful to people for thousands of years, in addition to providing vital pollination services to ecosystems and crops. Honey, beeswax, pollen, venom, royal jelly, and propolis are among them. Bee venom is the most expensive honey bee product ($30-$300 per gram), yet […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative condition that causes brain atrophy or shrinking, ultimately leading to death of brain cells. It is considered to be the biggest cause of dementia globally. The death rate due to AD in U.S came out as 37 per 100,000 people in 2019. […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University Schistosomiasis is a disregarded public health tropical disease. The most serious disease is largely attributable to the grain produced by eggs and subsequent fibrosis in the host liver. This may lead to portal hypertension or even the death of the host. Host disease is most commonly observed, schistosome eggs produce M2-rich […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University The environment has already been affected by global climate change. Glaciers have receded, ice on rivers and lakes has broken up earlier, plant and animal ranges have altered, and trees have begun to bloom earlier. Scientists are confident that global temperatures will continue to climb for decades to come, owing to […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata How can RNA viruses be detected in a cell? Some species of RNA viruses have the ability to cover themselves, hide inside a cell, and create copies of themselves. Positive-strand RNA viruses like the SARS-CoV-2 virus, flaviviruses (West Nile and Zika), as well as picornaviruses (cause polio and some heart and […]
Madhavi Bhatia, National Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Guwahati Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and is also age-associated. Approximately 5.8 million people are affected by this disease in the United States. Typically the onset of AD mostly occurs after the age of 65. The primary clinical manifestations of the disease cover profound cognitive […]
Madhavi Bhatia, National Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Guwahati Variant calling is the process by which we can identify variants in the sequence data provided. Variant calling has a major application in modern bioinformatics. It helps in discovering the underlying traits of Mendelian diseases, in understanding the individual’s susceptibility to cancer, and also to study genetic […]
