Weekly Biotech News of The World
Subhajit Nan, Amity University, Kolkata Scientists created modified virus-resistant bacteria and made synthetic polymers from synthetic building blocks, making them immune to viral attack. They also found the synthetic genome made the bacteria fully proof against infection by viruses. Using the natural protein-making processes of the cell The goal was to utilize the newly available […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata The world has seen a revolution in the ability to engineer biology and create living systems with novel functions over the last few decades. Nonetheless, several obstacles continue to obstruct our ability to fully exploit biology’s potential. These are a consequence of the fact that individuals cannot engineer the elements […]
Ananya Dutta, Bose Institute This is the aphorism of Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center, New York, USA. At MSK it is believed that immunotherapy is one of the most promising treatments to treat, cure, and eventually prevent cancer. Immunotherapy cradled from MSK about more than a century ago. William Coley (1893), a surgeon at […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Scientists have come over a class of drugs utilized in the treatment of breast and ovarian cancer which might be effective in other types of diseases with inadequate treatment alternatives. These are called PARP inhibitors which have the potential to kill cancer cells carrying a defect in the Polybromo 1(PBRM1) […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta When we see conventional drug administration, especially in cases of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, the commonly prescribed drugs are those that require metabolism to be absorbed into the central nervous system. However, it has been found that the number of drugs reaching the brain after metabolism is very small. We […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Protein folding and misfolding is widely studied about different diseases and symptoms due to their ability to trigger a stress response in our body, leading to several diseases, even neurodegeneration. When speaking of stress, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is something on which maximum focus should be given since ER […]
Varuni Ankolekar, Clinical Data Manager Traditionally, the discovery of drugs was done by recognizing the active ingredients from traditional remedies or unexpectedly. Later, Scientists discovered that the interaction of specific chemicals in the drug with biological molecules of the human body serves the purpose of the drug. Later, Chemical pharmacological approaches were made to identify […]
Samreek Bhatta, Delhi Public School, Megacity, Kolkata Purpose of World Food Safety Day: World Food Safety Day (WFSD) celebrated on the 7th of June each year, aims at drawing attention and encouraging people to take action to facilitate the reduction, prevention, and detection of foodborne risks, that contribute to food security, human health, sustainable development, […]
Ananya Dutta, Bose Institute Various national and international health organizations have emphasized the significance of testing each and every individual in a population and ensuing the contact tracing in order to arrest the outspread of the COVID-19 virus. The existing diagnostic approach is a two-step procedure involving a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction followed by real-time […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata We have been exploiting and destroying our planet’s ecosystem for a long time. In every three seconds, the world loses enough forest equivalent to a football pitch. 50% of our coral reefs have already been lost and by 2050 an estimate of 90% of the coral reefs could be lost. Due […]
