Diya Adhikary, Amity University Kolkata Can you name an animal that is even older than the Dinosaur? Well, one such animal is the Horse Shoe Crab! ‘Horseshoe crab’ (Limulus polyphemus), as the name suggests, is a marine and brackish water arthropod with a rounded head that resembles the shoe of a horse. It is a […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata Meningitis is an inflammatory condition that affects the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. Viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites can all cause it. Bacterial meningitis is one of the most serious types, and it is a leading cause of death and disability in children all over the world. […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata CRISPR- Cas 9 gene-editing system, we all have heard of that isn’t it? A giant in Gene editing. Well here’s the thing- There is something even more interesting than that. Retrons: A group of researchers at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School have created a new gene-editing tool called Retron […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Lots of living organisms are used in Biotechnology as protein production hosts. They are extremely useful in drug development, biopharmaceuticals, and protein delivery. In this new research, earthworms are developed as next-generation animal protein production hosts, something that has never been done before. Escherichia coli, our favorite bacteria has been […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata The International Space Station, also known as ISS, is an orbital laboratory located in low-Earth orbit (LEO) that has hosted numerous astronauts for maintenance and scientific experiments in its microgravity environment. Over the last six years, astronauts from various crews have collected samples from eight different locations on the space […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming a greater threat to human health day by day, necessitating the development of new antibiotics. Bacteriophages and their potential as antibacterial agents to combat pathogenic bacteria have sparked renewed interest. This is largely due to the phage’s ability to cause a cellular breakdown in the bacterial […]
Shreemoyee Mitra, Amity University Kolkata Role of Solvent tolerance in biofuel production and its trend in the species- Microorganisms have been considered as a boon that shapes all biological sciences. Microorganisms form an integral part of our everyday lives as they are not only present around us but also within us, some also involved in […]
Sumedha Guha, Techno India University One of the growing challenges of the modern world is the rise in the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Two main causes of this problem can be traced back to the overuse of antibiotics as prescription drugs and rise in the usage of antibiotics as selection markers in laboratory experiments. Michelle […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. Quite a mouthful isn’t it? In the name itself is hidden, its definition. It is composed of short identical palindromic DNA segments that are separated with spacer DNA, which are all unique. There are also a number of genes associated with […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata Retrons are specific sequences found in the bacterial genome that consists of reverse transcriptase (RT) and a non-coding RNA (ncRNA). They are often regarded as a hybrid of “half-RNA and half single-stranded DNA” that are found in many bacterial species. Even though the use of retrons for the synthesis of […]
