Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming a greater threat to human health day by day, necessitating the development of new antibiotics. Bacteriophages and their potential as antibacterial agents to combat pathogenic bacteria have sparked renewed interest. This is largely due to the phage’s ability to cause a cellular breakdown in the bacterial […]
-Diya Adhikary; Amity University Kolkata Biomaterials of ceramic origin (bioceramics) are “specially designed and fabricated for the repair and reconstruction of diseased, damaged, missing or worn out parts of the body”. Initially, the bioceramics were bioinert but afterward changed to responsive bioceramics. The era of hydroxyapatite in regenerative science dates from the 1950s when bone […]
Sumedha Guha, Techno India University One of the growing challenges of the modern world is the rise in the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Two main causes of this problem can be traced back to the overuse of antibiotics as prescription drugs and rise in the usage of antibiotics as selection markers in laboratory experiments. Michelle […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela The gastrointestinal metagenome is aggregation of all the genomes of gut microbiota. The gut flora is established after birth, by which time the intestinal epithelium and the intestinal mucosal barrier that it secretes developed its tolerance and also provides a barrier to pathogenic organisms. The relationship between gut flora and humans is not merely commensal but rather a mutualistic relationship. […]
Dyotak Chandra, The West Bengal University Of Health Sciences Since the past two centuries, 98.6°F (37C) is taken as the standard “normal” body temperature. First established by German physician Carl Wunderlich, it has been used by doctors and parents as a measure by which fever can be assessed and to detect the severity of any […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Sepsis, a complication caused by dysregulation of the immune system causes around 11 million deaths every year in the world. Treatment includes antibiotics and organ support measures, but it fails many times due to unsuccessful attempts at modulating the immune response. Surviving the condition requires activation of resistance mechanisms which […]
Avipsha Datta, Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta Antibiotics were considered to be “wonder drugs” in the 20th century. But, as days passed, we started the over usage of these medicines and basically helped the bacteria to become pretty clever and evade these wonder drugs, that is, they developed resistance! Antibiotic […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Increasing resistance to antibiotics by infectious microbes is emerging as a serious threat to mankind. To tackle this problem, nanomaterials are rapidly rising by improving the power of existing antibiotics or producing altogether new antibacterial instruments. An antibiotic works by inhibiting the synthesis of DNA, RNA or cell wall of […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Appendectomy has for quite some time been the standard treatment for appendicitis, even though effective utilisation of anti-microbial therapy as an option was accounted for over 60 years. Even in recent years, more than 95% of U.S. patients with appendicitis underwent an appendectomy. However, with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, […]
