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 […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata In an attempt to investigate how the monkey embryos and human embryos function alongside, scientists discovered the world’s first monkey embryos containing human cells. Fascinating, right? The embryos were derived from a macaque and then injected with human stem cells in the lab, these were then allowed to grow […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata It has been a decade long pursuit to decipher the neurological functioning of Alzheimer’s disease as well as Parkinson’s disease. Medical biology has developed various procedure to understand the neurological function in these diseases. With the advancement of technology, the medical biologist has come up with a new type of […]
SUMEDHA GUHA, TECHNO INDIA UNIVERSITY Reelin is an extracellular glycoprotein that acts as a key regulator for different steps in brain wiring and neuronal cell migration. Reelin signalling is required for axonal targeting, regulation of dendritogenesis, and spine formation in mature neurons. It also plays an important role in ensuring hippocampal integrity, synaptic plasticity, and […]
Surupa Chakraborty, Amity University Kolkata Lewy body dementia comprises two related disorders: dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD). Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is recognized as the second most common form of neurodegenerative dementias in older people. Sufficient pieces of evidence are still not available about its prognosis and natural history, which […]
Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata A second pandemic shadows our land, following after COVID-19: a pandemic of slumbering brains. We isolated the elder and older to protect them from the virus. A survey by the Washington Post suggests that over 13,000 excess deaths have occurred in dementia patients after the pandemic started, not related to COVID. The neurologist stated […]
