Weekly Biotech News of The World
-Binayak Das, Team bioXone Stomatal cells help plants to breathe and facilitate the vital process of photosynthesis by allowing gaseous exchange between the plant and the atmosphere. They also are highly involved in responses to various environmental stress cues and do so by controlling the closure of these cells, the mechanism of which is largely […]
-Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Cancer Immunotherapy uses the immune system to eradicate cancer cells and prevent their spread in the body. It needs to be personalized because anticancer immune responses can be inhibited in various ways varying from person to person. There are pharmaceutical and non – pharmaceutical approaches cancer immunotherapy which includes monoclonal […]
–Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata We human beings often ignore something we dislike and that’s often termed as neophobia; but can other animals also show certain changes in behavior due to it? Well absolutely. A recent paper published on animal behavior shows how house sparrows can react differently with different phenotypes. The environment the sparrows […]
-Anwita Sarkar, Team bioXone The current scenario of the devastating global pandemic of COVID-19 clearly depicts the importance of our immune system for our survival. The vast network of cells and tissues of the immune system are constantly searching for foreign particles and are eliciting immune responses by modulating their genome. Thus, regulation of the […]
–Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata Alexander Fleming’s remarkable discovery PENICILLIN- ruling over the Earth for more than 100 years has been the most common cause of hypersensitivity reactions or drug allergy. Presence of genetic factors have been traced only in rare acute allergic reactions thereby keeping milder forms of hypersensitivity reactions still in dim light. […]
–Raddur Samaddar, Amity University Kolkata Hypoxia is the talk of the town now, especially with the advent of COVID-19, curing of patients with severe levels of infection, escalating to respiratory problems, with oxygen-induced treatment is a major form of supportive care. Scientists have come up with a study that provides information on gut microbiota and […]
–Sheyashree Mondal, Amity University Kolkata Plants have always been used to cure ailments by chewing, brewed or rubbed on body. Pharmaceutical companies import these plants from specialized farms and extract their active chemical compounds to produce drugs like scopolamine, atropine. The factory-floor reprogramming of yeast has been carried out by the first author of the […]
-Anuska Sen, Amity University Kolkata During space missions, when astronauts cross the magnetosphere layer of the Earth, they are exposed to the harmful ionizing space radiations. Although the stainless steel shields are potent enough to save them but these are in no way economical and handy. Researcher G.K. Shunk and the group have come up […]
-Ritwika Chowdhury, Amity University Kolkata Mitochondria is responsible for the activity of the neurons. Thus, mitochondrial dysfunction often links to some of the most critical and destructive forms of neurodegeneration, such as Parkinson’s disease, different ataxias and several peripheral neuropathies.Neurons have very little or no capacity to adapt their energy metabolism to challenging conditions as […]
-Anwita Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata Over the past several years, with the advent of research, the coalescence of nanomaterials and biomolecules forming nanobioconjugates have emerged as potential architecture to amplify biorecognition of biosensors. Combination of biomolecules like nucleic acids, proteins, peptides, enzymes etc. with nanomaterials of noble metals have significant implication for the development of […]
