Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata COVID-19 has already taken over 4 million lives around the world, hence testing is essential for understanding the virus and controlling its spread. Currently, the tests are restricted by two factors, time taken and the accuracy required for analyzing a sample. The third factor which poses a challenge towards the […]
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 […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata On Wednesday, the ICMR issued an advisory for the use of a home testing kit for Covid-19. This home testing kit is the rapid antigen testing kit developed and validated by Mylab Discovery Solutions, named “Coviself Covid19 OTC Antigen LF device”. Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has also […]
PRIASHA DUTTA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL One of the leading causes of mortality in the present-day world is cancer. Whenever we think of cancer treatment, the two words that are immediately synonymous are chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Although, due to limited efficacy based on the heterogeneity factor of cancer cells, there is a constant […]
-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 ICMR officials said on Tuesday that The Drugs Controller General of India has given authorization for conducting Phase-1 human clinical trial for an “antisera” that was developed by injecting inactivated SARS-CoV-2 in horses and can be a treatment for COVID-19. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in alliance with a Hyderabad-based vaccine maker […]
-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 new study has revealed the presence of a unique class of T cells, known as the Memory CD8 T lymphocytes, in mice, and its analogous population in humans also. This class of memory cells exhibited combined molecular functioning characteristic features, of both short-lived effector cells and long-lived memory T cells. […]
