Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University The emergence of COVID-19 has brought some serious landmarks in the field of science. With little knowledge of the infecting virus and its variants, scientists have made giant leaps to protect our society and to stop the spread of the virus. These giant leaps have come in the form of the […]
Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida Oxford University researchers have announced that volunteers have received the first HIV (Human immunodeficiency) vaccination to find an effective cure for the virus. It has been 40 years since an effective HIV vaccine has been discovered. Trials are underway to develop an effective vaccine against HIV. The […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University A recently published new study states that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine immune system reactions have proved to offer long-lasting protection against COVID-19. mRNA vaccines have created more and better germinal centre B cell responses, thus indicating that the immunity system would be much more impactful and offer long-lasting […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University What is Cholera? Cholera is a diarrheal sickness caused by the toxigenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae infecting the intestine. Each year, an estimated 2.9 million cases and 95,000 deaths occur in the population worldwide. The World Health Organization estimates that 1.3 million to 4 million people are infected with cholera each year, […]
Akshita Kumar, M.Sc. Biochemistry A recent study jointly conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) and the National Institute of Virology(NIV) detected the presence of antibodies against Nipah virus(NiV) in bats residing in a cave in Mahabaleshwar. The sole purpose of this study was to investigate the spread of the Nipah Virus in Indian […]
Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is currently raging across our country, and in its most lethal form by far. While scientists are still carrying out extensive research for a permanent one-size-fits-all cure, there are other forms of treatment and prevention strategies. They include vaccine development, designing of macromolecular neutralizing antibodies, and […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata The heme group is a very important biomolecular group for the functioning of the body. From the transfer of oxygen to different parts of the body to the reduction of oxygen, transfer of electrons and other important functions, it is one of the key molecules for most of the living […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata Molecularly imprinted polymers, also known as MIPs, were first developed about half a century ago. It uses the technique of molecular imprinting that leaves cavities with an affinity for a selected “template” molecule within the polymer matrix. In the presence of a template molecule that is extracted afterwards, the process […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata The SARS-CoV-2 virus can infect a cell by the interaction between the viral spike protein and the human cell surface protein ACE2. It binds with ACE2 using receptor-binding domains (RBDs) which are finger-like protrusions. Therefore, by blocking these receptors, the viral entry into human cells can be stopped and this can be […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata An increased chance of cancer among those who consume large amounts of dairy products and red meat has been identified by a team of researchers at the Department of Cell Research and Immunology of Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research at Tel Aviv University’s George S. Wise Faculty of […]
