Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed by researchers at UC San Diego can withstand the heat. What are their key ingredients? Plant or bacterial viruses. Vaccine technology: We are still in the early phases of developing the new refrigerator-free COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccine candidates stimulated the mice to produce high […]
Anish Pyne, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Very recently, two types of unicellular nano-eukaryotes (protists) were found drifting along the waters of the Gulf of Maine off the North American coast. The organisms depicted certain features that could potentially lead them to be regarded as the world’s first known virophage to science! INTRODUCTION: Famous Hungarian-American […]
Subhajit Nan, Amity University, Kolkata Scientists created modified virus-resistant bacteria and made synthetic polymers from synthetic building blocks, making them immune to viral attack. They also found the synthetic genome made the bacteria fully proof against infection by viruses. Using the natural protein-making processes of the cell The goal was to utilize the newly available […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata A, C, T, and G are the four building blocks of DNA. However, some bacteriophage viruses use a particular DNA alphabet to encode their genetic instructions., i.e, exchange A for Z. Scientists in Russia announced more than 40 years ago that cyanophage S-2L, a form of bacteriophage, replaces the […]
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 […]
