Weekly Biotech News of The World
Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata While the whole world is fighting with SARS-CoV-2, scientists are continuously searching for ways to beat the virus. Doing so, they have found out an antibody, CR3022. This CR3022 was able to neutralize the SARS-CoV, which caused an epidemic in 2003. CR3022 had been collected from a patient 14 years […]
PRAGYA SANTRA, AMITY UNIVERSITY Ovarian disorders have become a common problem for women in the present day. For detection of the diseases, ultrasonographic imaging of ovarian morphology is used mostly to diagnose the reproductive status of the women. Metabolic and hormonal disbalances cause negative ( undernutrition) or positive (obesity) energy impairment. Ultrasonic metrices are used […]
Sristi Raj Rai, Amity University Kolkata DNA sequencing is one of the key vertebrae that form the backbones of the evolving areas in the field of Biology and other sciences. It is a process that helps us to figure out the sequence in which the nucleotides are arranged in a DNA molecule. Thus, it can […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata As quoted by Gilda Radner, “Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge scary-it’s an act of infinite optimism”. Several factors come into play while dealing with pregnancy. The health of the mother and the baby-to-be is taken care of where the […]
Surupa Chakraborty, Amity University Kolkata Scientists cured lost eyesight in mice by genetically reprogramming the neurons that make up the optic nerve. They used the mice eye as a model tissue to show that the ectopic expression of genes like Oct4, Sox2, and Klf4 (OSK) in mouse retinal ganglion cells can help in restoring vision […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Epstein-Barr virus(EBV) is a DNA virus that belongs in the γ-herpesvirus family that produces lifelong infection and severe diseases- Burkitt lymphoma(BL). The virus mainly affects immune-compromised individuals suffering from nasopharyngeal cancer, and post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD). The EBV genome encodes different classes of non-coding RNAs including two long […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata Another threat to human civilization apart from the current COVID-19 situation is the growing risk of antibiotic-resistant bacteria due to overuse and un-prescribed consumption of antibiotics. An annual death of more than 2 million all across the globe made researchers find out a solution on how to control this risk. […]
Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata Scientists never stop researching something until they can find effective and affordable methods to fight the problems. Biosensors are devices that are used to detect the presence or concentration of an analyte. Scientists have been trying to use biosensor to detect viruses and bacteria. Biosensors can be of several types, […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Chemical compounds in some food or beverages, like green tea, muscadine grapes, and dark chocolate have been known to bind to and block the function of a protease, in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to researchers. Proteases are essential to the health and viability of cells and viruses. On the […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata The extraordinary ability of Cephalopods to hide in any setting has motivated many researchers to recreate the fascinating ability to camouflage easily in the infrared (IR) and visible spectrum, but this still remains a real mystery. A study was conducted by some researchers of Seoul National University, where only by […]
