Weekly Biotech News of The World
Shrestha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata SARS-CoV2 belongs to the Coronaviridae family in the Nidovirales order. Coronavirus resembles crown-like spikes on the external surface of the viral envelope. CoVsare miniature in size (65–125 nm in measurement) and contain a single-stranded (+)-RNA as the genetic material of 26-32kb long. Coronaviruses are generally grouped into alpha (a), beta […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow A lot of recent approaches to targeting different diseases have been at the transcriptional level where the root cause could be analyzed and/or eliminated. Obesity is one such condition that is being approached through miRNA mimicking as a therapeutic tool in a recent study published in the Molecular Therapy […]
Madhavi Bhatia,NIPER Guwahati SARS-covid-19 is now well-known as a severe acute respiratory syndrome that has affected all parts of the world. It has caused almost 3.9 million deaths worldwide resulting in a global pandemic. To curb the disease, various drugs are approved and used worldwide. Today, immunization is considered a safe and effective tool to […]
Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida A well-documented evolutionary driving phenomenon has been found in prokaryotes and eukaryotes known as HGT (Horizontal gene transfer), but its impact has remained elusive on the plant kingdom. HGT between a plant and insect in which the transferred genetic material performs a useful function, has been shown in […]
Neha khan, Jamia Millia Islamia What is the alpha variant? The B.1.1.7 variant is known as the Alpha variant which was first found in India and had taken thousands of lives. This coronavirus variant is more infectious than other variants because it foils the innate immune system for a while till it replicates and finds […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University Noida For sustainable development, biological lignin valorization has come across as a major change. But currently, biorefineries are producing lignin with less fractionation for biological conversion, this affects the economic outcome. It’s important to note here that substantial changes in the biorefinery can affect the carbohydrate efficiency, as well as […]
Monika R, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Transcriptional gene regulation is how a cell regulates the conversion of DNA to RNA, and it is also a complex process that utilizes a network of interactions. This process is primarily controlled by DNA binding proteins known as transcription factors (TFs)/regulators, that attach to specific DNA sequences and thereby repress […]
Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University Kolkata We all know how the horrific Covid19 pandemic has shaken the entire world. With the SARS-corona virus, 2 is the main culprit, it has claimed millions of lives worldwide and has disrupted the socio-economic balance of all countries. The virus has been a cause of concern due to its variants […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University Tuberculosis is a major health concern in many low and middle-income countries. TB continues to be the top killer infectious disease in the world. In 2019 over 10.0 million people were affected with TB and 1.41 million deaths were attributed to it. TB affects all countries of […]
Saakshi Bangera, DY Patil School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Sarah Nyquist is a PhD candidate in MIT’s computational and systems biology department who attempted to use machine learning to understand the genomic composition of breast milk. Along with her co-advisor professors – Alex Shalek and Bonnie Berger, she aimed at using computational tools to study […]
