Weekly Biotech News of The World
AISHILA KAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA In step with University of Queensland research, some snakes have evolved a single genetic trick to avoid being eaten by venomous snakes. Antagonistic interactions, like predator–prey relationships, are drivers of evolutionary novelty within the coevolution of the many organisms, with reciprocal selection pressures resulting in genotypic changes. This reciprocal evolution […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Multiple genetic changes direct cancer from mutations to aneuploidy. Aneuploidy is the presence of an unusual number of chromosomes in cancer cells. It is estimated that inherently, 90% of solid tumors, like breast cancer and colon cancer, and 75% of blood cancers are caused by aneuploidy. Although being an indication […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata Are you looking for an adorable eavesdropping neighbor, whose talent for judging everyone amazes you every moment? Then you must befriend a family of marmosets, who have been recently recognized for their incredible talent of judging other animals around them. Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) are native to the forests of north-eastern […]
-Ruchita Karmakar, Amity University Kolkata COVID-19 has been a major issue worldwide. But the traces of COVID-19 can be detected by a prompt diagnosis, isolation of the patient, and a contract tracing. Molecular tests serve as a potential way out for the detection of COVID-19 among the patients. These tests have been conducted in many […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata An autoimmune disease is a condition in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the healthy cells of the body. Children with autoimmune diseases often require treatment with immunosuppressive drugs. So, in these patients, the efficacy and safety of vaccination, particularly the live attenuated vaccines remain a concern. As the live attenuated […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata. It has always been a critical challenge to establish an adequate vascularisation of 3D bioengineered tissues. A vascular scaffold using the vascular corrosion casting technique was fabricated earlier that provided a lookalike 3D geometry of native kidney vasculature. In this, the collagen vascular scaffold with the restricted release of VEGF […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata Interspecies chimeras provide a unique platform for discovery and clinical use by probing early embryogenesis and regeneration. Interspecies chimeras are useful through interspecies blastocyst complementation to study human development and disease and also to produce functional human tissues. Cell competition involves a preserved fitness-sensing process during which adjoining less-fit but viable […]
Shrestha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most quickly spreading chronic liver sickness. It is closely identified with metabolic disorder and its related conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and hyperuricemia. Past studies have uncovered a connection between hyperuricemia and the seriousness of liver damage in NAFLD. A […]
Sagnik Nag , Amity University, Kolkata Hemodialysis is a treatment procedure wherein the blood is filtered from metabolic wastes and water, exactly mimicking the work of our healthy kidneys. Recently Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have claimed to discover that the carbon nanotube membrane pores would enable ultra-rapid dialysis processes which would efficiently reduce […]
CAMELIA BHATTACHARYYA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA HIV or Human Immunodeficiency virus was first discovered in the early 1980s. It later became an epidemic and it still scares people since there’s still no vaccine known to protect us against it. Does that mean that the scientists and researchers are not trying to even make one? Well no. […]
