Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University Kolkata We all know how the horrific Covid19 pandemic has shaken the entire world. With the SARS-corona virus, 2 is the main culprit, it has claimed millions of lives worldwide and has disrupted the socio-economic balance of all countries. The virus has been a cause of concern due to its variants […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela In the last two decades, various coronavirus diseases have become a major public health issue, starting with the SARS-CoV pandemic in 2002 through 2003, then the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) epidemic in 2012, and current the COVID-19 pandemic. In all the cases, it has been reported […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata Since the identification of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the spike protein of it has been a topic of great interest among researchers. These spike proteins are capable of infecting the host cells after their attachment to the ACE2 receptor binding domain. The new mutated strains have caused a huge amount of […]
Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata The pandemic caused by COVID-19 is continuing still. The causative viral pathogen of COVID-19 is SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2). This SARS-CoV-2 actually belongs to the β coronavirus genus along with SARS-CoV (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus) and MERS-CoV (middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus). Although SARS-CoV-2 targets the […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata 3-Dimensional modeling of Protein structure can provide us with lots of insights on its functions and interactions. Researchers from Stanford University, California utilized this technique to study the receptor-binding domain of SARS-coV-2. This discovery could help in drug development and the prediction of future outbreaks. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has changed […]
Anwesha Chatterjee, Amity University Kolkata The novel Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2) infection which is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic is expecting an adverse effect on the progression of multiple cancers, i.e. prostate cancer, due to the transpiring cytokine storm associated with oncogenic signalling. Cancer progression can be prevented at an early stage by blocking SARS-COV-2 infection […]
Debraj Ghosh, Undergraduate student of Medicinal Institute, People’s Friendship Institute of Russia, Moscow, Russia Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)(1) is the strain of coronavirus causes the respiratory illness responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a positive ssRNA(4) virus that is contagious to humans and is a successor to SARS-CoV-1 according to the U.S. National Institute of Health. The SARS-CoV-2 virion […]
-Binayak Das, Team bioXone A team of scientists claims that Indians should be grateful to their genetics, which according to their study is a critical factor in having a comparatively lesser number of deaths from COVID-19 in their populations. They studied the complete DNA data of the ACE2 gene in the X chromosomes from different […]
-Arpita Adhikary, Amity University Kolkata It has been observed in the studies that when the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects – Heparin sulfate and ACE2 enter inside the cells. The course of viral entry and successful attachment is quite limpid. Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptors are present on the outer surface of cells that line the lungs. SARS-CoV-2 […]
–Rishav Chakraborty, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata The SARS-COV infection occurred first in 2003-2004. The infection is believed to be contracted from animals including monkeys, Himalayan palm civets, cats, dogs, and rodents. Clinical manifestation including myalgia, headache, sore throat, and fever followed by severe respiratory distress. The virus binds with the ACE-2 (Angiotensinogen Converting Enzyme) […]
