Weekly Biotech News of The World
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata The International Space Station, also known as ISS, is an orbital laboratory located in low-Earth orbit (LEO) that has hosted numerous astronauts for maintenance and scientific experiments in its microgravity environment. Over the last six years, astronauts from various crews have collected samples from eight different locations on the space […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata José M. Polo, PhD, a professor of anatomy and developmental biology at Monash University, discovered a way to generate induced blastoids or iBlastoids that imitates the natural human blastoids; made up of reprogrammed skin cells. Molecular and functional assays were performed to demonstrate that the structures were blastocyst-like structures that […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela An accident in any nuclear facility of the nuclear fuel cycle like a nuclear reactor leads to a large-scale release of radioactivity in the environment causing a great radiation exposure. The shock wave affects humans by rupturing eardrums or lungs. However, there are no fruitful, safe therapies for […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University, Kolkata During fertilisation, when a sperm cell fuses with an egg cell or oocyte from the female it forms a zygote. But there’s an interesting fact to it, oocytes are the largest cell produced by most organisms. In fact in humans, oocytes are comparatively larger than normal body cells. The growth […]
Shagufta Hasan, Amity University Kolkata The world has had hard knocks with COVID-19 vaccines but no drug seems to give full coverage against the virus, but now, it may hope for good news. A new drug, Molnupiravir, has been developed by Merck & Co. Inc in association with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, a biotechnology company, focused on […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming a greater threat to human health day by day, necessitating the development of new antibiotics. Bacteriophages and their potential as antibacterial agents to combat pathogenic bacteria have sparked renewed interest. This is largely due to the phage’s ability to cause a cellular breakdown in the bacterial […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata A nanoparticle is a source of matter whose diameter lies in the range of 1 to 100 meters. They are interesting substances and are very useful in the field of biomaterial sciences. Graphene flakes are one of the most perfect nanoparticles, they are effective, reversible, and have non-harmful action, but […]
Sristi Raj Rai, Amity University Kolkata Energy is a transferable property of a body that can neither be created nor destroyed. It is the energy that is required to carry out any kind of work and has various forms (potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, biological, etc). Keeping the transferable property in mind, nano engineers from […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata In almost two years, after evolving a human cerebral organoids system to work Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), researchers have further studied a model to screen drugs for budding CJD treatment. Human Cerebral Organoids are small bundles of human synapses generated using human skin cells. They range from the size of […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Knowledge is a huge thing wrapped up in a single word. As the world is changing on a daily basis, so is the knowledge about a topic. There are still several questions to be answered and that’s exactly what brings scientists and researchers in the framework to search for unanswered […]
