Weekly Biotech News of The World
Richa Prakash, Central University of Punjab Introduction With the development in science and technology, we got a basic idea of the nutritional needs of human beings leading to the minimization of malnutrition and health conditions resulting from nutritional deficiency. This led to an approach known as “one-size-fits-all”, and also platforms like MyPlate and Food Guide […]
Esha Mukherjee, Amity University Noida Monocultures now dominate arable land, with enormous swaths of land dedicated to a single, high-yielding elite variety. However, planting only one type of crop on the arable ground has its drawbacks: these regions are easy prey for fungal and insect pests, posing a threat to agriculture. Farmers must utilize resistant […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College. It has been more than half a century that the Coronaviruses (CoVs) have been rampantly spreading across the globe. This has led to the current pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, which extends a momentum to be able to characterize the largely expressed protein, the Nucleocapsid (N) protein. This N protein is […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela The SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated very frequently over time that resulted in genetic variation of circulating viral strains throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Viral mutations can enhance virulence as well as transmissibility in humans. It affects the antigen and serology tests due to the inherent design differences of each […]
Madhavi Bhatia,NIPER Guwahati The aging process is characterized by a progressive accumulation of damage, which leads to loss of physiological integrity, impaired function and, increased susceptibility to death. Earlier, it was thought that the aging process affects the entire organism except for the germline. Because the lineage is immortal in the sense that the germline […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University A recently published new study states that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine immune system reactions have proved to offer long-lasting protection against COVID-19. mRNA vaccines have created more and better germinal centre B cell responses, thus indicating that the immunity system would be much more impactful and offer long-lasting […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata The finding of the oldest fungus species parasitizing fossilized ant Fossils aid in deciphering a huge amount of prehistoric life, although everything cannot be interpreted from them. A research team from the Integrative Biology department of Oregon State University (OSU) has discovered a novel fungal genus and species in an […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University All over the world research is currently focused on the development of a drug that might help cure COVID19. At the moment we do not have any treatment for COVID19. Vaccines are the only way the chain of transmission can be broken. Throughout the pandemic, various drugs […]
Aparna Pandey, IILM Academy of Higher learning and Education, Greater Noida Extracellular vesicles are small sheaths particles derived from various cell types. Extracellular vesicles are lipid bilayer-enclosed, cytosol-containing spheres that are liberated by all eukaryotes and prokaryotic cells into the extracellular environment. Small RNAs plays an important role in different cellular processes like differentiation in […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University What is Cholera? Cholera is a diarrheal sickness caused by the toxigenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae infecting the intestine. Each year, an estimated 2.9 million cases and 95,000 deaths occur in the population worldwide. The World Health Organization estimates that 1.3 million to 4 million people are infected with cholera each year, […]
