Weekly Biotech News of The World
Biswadeep Sen, Amity University Kolkata Ovarian Cancer is one of the most notorious forms of cancers, causing pain and discomfort to 1 in 108 women worldwide. Immune checkpoint therapy has shown that the presence of Immune Phenotypes limits its efficacy against this deadly foe. The previous digging had shed light upon the Wnt/β-catenin pathway and […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela For transmission of viruses from one host to the next, virions must remain viable(infectious) in the period between release from the transmitting host and uptake by the recipient host. Thus environmental stability like ambient temperature and humidity of viruses determines the potential for fomite transmission and for mid-to-long range […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata The environment that an embryo encounters during its developing stage matters a lot because it has major consequences on the later-life of an individual. Telomeres are the protective ends of chromosomes and their length is indicative of the “biological age” of an individual. Telomeres have a tendency to shorten […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University Kolkata Our blood serves as an imperative circulatory fluid transporting many chemical substances and respiratory gases throughout the body. There are certain molecules present in the blood which serve as markers providing indications towards the state of our health. Molecules such as hormones and drugs directly or indirectly affect the health […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. Quite a mouthful isn’t it? In the name itself is hidden, its definition. It is composed of short identical palindromic DNA segments that are separated with spacer DNA, which are all unique. There are also a number of genes associated with […]
Surupa Chakraborty, Amity University Kolkata The past decade saw an explosion in the use of nanopore-based technology for DNA/RNA sequencing where Nanopores can be ideally used as single-molecule sensors. Oxford Nanopore Technologies has developed sequencing technologies – the ION series; a miniature nanopore DNA sequencer called the MinION that allows portable and convenient sequencing of high throughput […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) is the total amount of filtration done by the functioning nephrons in the kidney and it is considered an optimum way to measure the kidney’s function. GFR along with albuminuria can determine the extent of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in an individual. The annual decline of the […]
–Arpita Adhikary, Amity University Kolkata Methane is a greenhouse gas that plays an important role in future climate change due to global warming. In anaerobic soil concentration of methane increases due to microbial methanogenesis. This study illustrates the compensatory response to temperature change in microbial methanogenesis in anaerobic soil. From the Greater Khingan Range and the Tibetan […]
Sumedha Guha, Techno India University Uncontrolled cell growth and division unleashed by an alteration (known as ‘mutation’) in the genetic circuits that regulate the cell cycle in a normal cell lead to cancer. In women, cervical cancer is the 2nd most commonly occurring cancer with more than 500,000 cases reported worldwide and 200,000 deaths. Cervical […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata The absence of effective drug delivery strategies has eventually restricted the very little medical progress in the field of Glioblastoma (GBM) – the most aggressive form of brain cancer in the past decades. The delicate anatomical structure of the brain results in low success rates. The blood-brain barrier (BBB) offers […]
