Weekly Biotech News of The World
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Just a few months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, scientists were able to sequence the full genome of the SARS-CoV-2virus that had caused the infection. Most of its genes were already known then but the full complement of protein-coding genes remained unresolved. After performing an extensive comparative study, researchers […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata The Take all disease is a plant disease that attacks the roots and cereal plants in temperate climates. It is caused by a fungus and all varieties of wheat are susceptible to it. After extensive research, the researchers have successfully been able to trace the steps of the biological […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta Sharks (Subclass: Elasmobranchii) are among those species that exhibit site fidelity, which means that no matter how far they migrate, they always find their way “home”(just like turtles). It has been speculated by scientists for some time now that migratory species like sharks can do this by using electrosensory organs […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata A, C, T, and G are the four building blocks of DNA. However, some bacteriophage viruses use a particular DNA alphabet to encode their genetic instructions., i.e, exchange A for Z. Scientists in Russia announced more than 40 years ago that cyanophage S-2L, a form of bacteriophage, replaces the […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Scientists recently discovered that worms can perceive light without their eyes or rather without their head. Planarians are one of the most special types of flatworm. They are soft-bodied creatures that often lack complex organs. They simply have two eyes that connect to a centralized bundle of ganglia in […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Taste is one of our most important senses. Without it, we would never know the pleasure of eating ice cream on a hot summer afternoon and drinking our favorite tea while reading a Jane Austin classic. Memory retrieval is the basic ability of organisms to make use of acquired and […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta British philosopher Timothy Morton defines a hyperobject as something that is so widely distributed in space and time such that it surpasses spatiotemporal specificity. This concept applies to Global Warming, radioactive plutonium and something that is a constituent of at least one item in front of you right now- microplastic. […]
Anuska Sen, Team BioXone “Have you ever heard about bladder cancer?” That’s the question this year’s theme of World Bladder Cancer Awareness Month asks us. It is believed that this one question if asked to people can make many of us “Bladder Cancer Aware”. The World Bladder Cancer Awareness Month is celebrated in May each […]
Arka Acharyya, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara We live on a rotating planet and that has an immense impact on Chronobiology. Like humans and other animals, plants also have an ‘internal clock’ that controls the daily and seasonal rhythms. According to the plant scientists of Cambridge University, the genetic architecture of circadian oscillators should […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that torments mankind, caused by the parasite plasmodium. Researchers at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical research have understood how the body’s natural immunity can be manipulated to prevent malaria, bringing us one step closer to new potential therapy. The causative organism of this […]
