Weekly Biotech News of The World
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata. The GACVS COVID-19 Vaccine Safety subcommittee met virtually on Tuesday, January 2021, to review available information and data of mortalities reported in frail, elderly individuals who had received the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, BNT162b2 (hereafter, BNT162b2). Experts invited from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and therefore the Uppsala Monitoring […]
Arjama Roy Small pieces of plastic fragments that are less than 5mm in length, commonly referred to as microplastics. Microplastics can move from the environment into human bodies via particular seafood, sea salt, and water. Ingestion of microplastics can expose chemicals that are known to be harmful. The study published within the Environment International journal; researchers have detected […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata The Zika virus epidemic was a public health emergency, causing birth defects for pregnant women in addition to neurological problems. The virus gets transmitted to humans from female mosquito bites. Researchers have tried several techniques to eliminate the spread of the virus, one of which is the use of genetically […]
CAMELIA BHATTACHARYYA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Almost all of us hate needles; they might not be that painful always, but our previous generation has often used the word “needles” to scare us against mischievous activities which might lead to taking a tetanus vaccine at times. From disease detection to stitches and other medical purposes, needles play […]
AISHILA KAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Scientists have long believed but couldn’t make sure that brain activity declines once we sleep. Most sleep research is conducted using electroencephalography, a technique that entails measuring brain activity via electrodes put down along a patient’s scalp. But, an assistant at EPFL’s Medical Image Processing Laboratory, Anjali Tarun, decided to […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata Some organisms develop an internal switch that can remain hidden for very long or until it is switched on due to stress. Computer cell simulations have evolved over many generations. They disclose why some organisms maintain an un-used switch mechanism that turns on under severe stress, altering some of their […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Parkinson’s disease (PD) affects at a rapid rate almost doubled within one decade. PD is a progressive degenerative disease that mainly affects the brain, the peripheral nervous system, and the gastrointestinal tract, causing progressive movement disorders, gastrointestinal and autonomic dysfunction, sleep disorders, and cognitive impairment. There is no […]
PRIYANKA CHAKRABORTY, AMITY UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA Liver fibrosis is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among human beings. The unavailability of proper antifibrotic therapy makes the disease more deadly and the patients more vulnerable. RLX ( peptide hormone human relaxin-2), acting through a G protein-coupled receptor relaxin peptide receptor 1 (RXFP1), promotes tissue […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Researchers have commenced on re-established investigations concerning androgen treatment – a precursory breast cancer treatment, as recent findings in mice have shown that it might help to restrict tumor development. In 2020, approximately 2 million people in the United States were diagnosed with this cancer. Around 15% of those […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata According to the scientists at Baylor College of Medicine, antiviral immune pathways in triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC) can be activated by therapeutics targeting RNA splicing along with the stimulation of tumour cell death. Around 10-20% of breast cancers are triple-negative, which signifies that they are negative not only for estrogen […]
