Charvy Rana, Department of Pathology, AIIMS, New Delhi What is MYCN protein? Cancer often involves the inactivation of tumor-suppressor genes and/or over-activation of oncogenes. The MYCN proto-oncogene is one such example, implicated for its amplified or “oncogenic” status in several neuronal and non-neuronal cancers (those of lung, ovaries, prostate, and more)1. Normally expressed during the […]
Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed by researchers at UC San Diego can withstand the heat. What are their key ingredients? Plant or bacterial viruses. Vaccine technology: We are still in the early phases of developing the new refrigerator-free COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccine candidates stimulated the mice to produce high […]
Aayushi Gaur, University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kurukshetra University Antiviral antibodies, in general, are considered antiviral because they play an important role in the control of virus infections in a variety of ways. But the presence of these antibodies might be advantageous to the virus in some cases. Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of viral infections […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow The spread of SARS-CoV-2 has been devastating to human health globally with a recent death count of about 4 million. A major concern amongst scientists has been the reverse zoonosis which could seriously aggravate the spread of the virus. This could also result in newer variants evolving in animal […]
Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata, West Bengal A very rare and life-threatening autoimmune disease, Goodpasture syndrome (GPS) was discovered in 1919 by Dr. Ernest Goodpasture when he reported a case of bleeding in the lungs and glomerulonephritis during an influenza epidemic. Its rate of occurrence is 1 out of 1 million per year. This disorder […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Migraine and its chronification: Migraine is a significant primary headache disorder as it ranks the sixth most prevailing disease and the second cause of disability worldwide. This widespread neurological disease is distinguished by headaches which might take place with or without aura. An aura is a kind of sensory disturbance […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University, Noida The extent to which Covid vaccinations can protect people who have organ transplants is yet unknown. Transplantation doctors have long feared that the Covid vaccinations aren’t providing enough protection to patients undergoing transplants. Few studies have suggested that even after being completely vaccinated with mRNA vaccines, which are believed […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow The SARS-CoV2 virus has been nothing less than devastating to the global population within the last 1 year. The associated COVID-19 (coronavirus disease-2019) is being the center of attention for scientists and doctors worldwide. It helps them understand the underlying pathophysiology so that they can work towards devising appropriate […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University HIV has been present in our society for more than 30 years, from Central Africa to the USA and around the world. Viruses, as we can observe from 2021, are hard to combat! From the 1700s till today, have we progressed in society to include everyone without prejudice. From this crucial […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow Amongst so many vaccine options recently developed in different parts of the world, Sputnik V has proven to be a great candidate due to a lot of factors. Firstly, is its high efficacy of about 92% against the coronavirus disease caused by the SARS-CoV2 viral strains. Also known as […]
