Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Consuming salt or adding salt to a meal seems normal to everyone, right? But no, don’t add that extra pinch of salt! We already know that salt can raise blood pressure, but did you know that too much salt can severely disrupt the energy balance in immune cells which […]
Koustav Maiti, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara A normal cell always has the characteristics of regulated cell division, proliferation and lastly undergoes apoptosis (programmed cell death). But when the cell does not have control over its division, it causes a tumor. When the neoplastic cells are clustered together but don’t spread anywhere else within […]
–Dr. Ayan Raichaudhuri & Anuska Sen, Team BioXone The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) protein superfamily present in most eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms, form one of the largest protein families known, the majority of whose members are membrane proteins (ABC “transporters”). These transporters use ATP to pump molecules across a membrane and so are known to be […]
