Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata The crucial mechanism for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 1 (SARS-CoV-1) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections initializes with the binding of the viral spike protein to angiotensin-converting enzyme II (ACE2) human receptor protein. In order to create a set of ACE2 variants optimized for affinity and […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Chikungunya fever is a self-remitting viral illness that is common in tropical countries like Africa and Southeast Asia caused by the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) (Genus- alphavirus, Family-Togaviridae), single-stranded positive-sense RNA enveloped virus, transmitted to humans by infected Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. International travel is one of the […]
Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta Cancer Immunotherapy work by helping the immune system to function in an efficient manner to fight cancer cells. For the immune system to start its response, it must first be able to identify and differentiate between self-part of your own body and non-self-foreign/antigen. Cancer Immunotherapy is generally divided in two […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata With the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, certain fundamental yet important questions come into the mind of various people. One such question is, “Can breastfeeding lead to the transmission of the coronavirus from a mother to her newborn?” The transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection from a mother to her child during the pregnancy […]
-Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata Antibodies serve as analytical barriers to viruses or viral infections. They play a dual role in communicating the existence of invading pathogens in infected cells, also, in interfering with the processes that are essential to the viral lifecycle. The antibodies activate phagocytes which is a potential mechanism of eradiating viruses. […]
-Raddur Samaddar, Team bioXone While the world is waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine with absolute eagerness, the closest promising immunological treatment that can help stop the rate of the ever-increasing spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is the Convalescent Plasma Therapy. This treatment relies upon the transfusion of the anti-viral antibodies from donors to recipients with […]
-Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in partnership with Hyderabad-based vaccine maker Biological E, has developed a “highly purified antisera” which will be utilized in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19. Antisera are blood sera that carry antibodies against a selected viral toxin or antigen and are introduced to […]
-Binayak Das,Team bioXone A team of scientists has successfully isolated what they believe to be, as being the smallest biological molecule found till date, it being approximately one-tenth the size of an average antibody molecule. They have designed a therapeutic and pre-emptive drug called- Ab8 using it, which they propose will be able to not […]
