Weekly Biotech News of The World
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Often young aged people experience stomach aches, accompanied by a loss in weight, repeated diarrhea, and bloody stools without any reason. These might be the cause of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and to avoid risks they must go to the hospital for a colonoscopy. Inflammatory Bowel Disease generally involves the chronic […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela In the last two decades, corona-viral diseases became a major public health issue, starting with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) outbreak in 2002 through 2003, then the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in 2012, and currently, the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been observed that […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata CK2 is a constitutively active Ser/Thr protein kinase, which phosphorylates many substrates, controls signaling pathways, implicates plenty of human sicknesses. Its best-recorded job is in cancer, where it manages every single hallmark of malignancy. Other notable functions of CK2 are in human diseases; specifically, viruses in viral infections misuse host […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata When we talk about the most common form of dementia Alzheimer’s Disease comes to our mind. This disease is characterized by the build-up of amyloid plaque in the brain. Microglia that are considered to be the immune Sentinels of the brain not only eliminate foreign invaders but are also […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Researchers, for the first time, have been successfully able to sequence the entire genome from the skull of PeşteraMuierii 1. She is a woman who lived about 35,000 years ago in today’s Romania. Muierii woman is somehow related to Europeans, though she is not a direct ancestor. This study […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University, Kolkata Listeria is a gram-positive bacterial intracellular parasite that causes Listeriosis i.e. a foodborne infection causing fever, muscle aches, and, in many people, diarrhoea. It can cause fatal illness during pregnancy and affect newborns, adults with weakened immune systems and the elderly. According to statistics, 1,700 people in the U.S. get […]
Saptaparna Pal, Amity University Kolkata Posaconazole is the latest antifungal agent to be approved for use in Canada against severe fungal infections. With excellent and intensive activity against a large spectrum of fungi as well as yeasts, as well as having a well-formulated oral formulation, posaconazole provides many possible advantages. Amphotericin B, whether in lipid-based […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata We are all well aware of the increasing number of deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With over 3.42 million deaths recorded, the pandemic continues to impose risk on both the economic as well as healthcare sectors. COVID-19 or coronavirus is caused by SARS-CoV-2, which is an enveloped virus […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata According to the research done by an OU Hudson College of the public health faculty working in conjunction with colleagues in Denmark, a new type of bacterial spreading method has been found. The infection caused by campylobacter is one of the most common foodborne illnesses in the western world […]
Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University, Kolkata Hearing impairment is one of the most common modes of sensory damage in humans and animals. Most hearing impairments are hereditary, i.e., they are inherited from parents before birth. Despite being common, the underlying mechanisms of hereditary deafness are complex and little understood. The most common cause of hearing loss […]
