Janhavi Patil, Symbiosis School of Biological Sciences, Pune What is Schizophrenia? Many mental disorders are prevalent today. Considered a clinical syndrome, Schizophrenia is commonly diagnosed in people today. Disordered thinking, hallucinations, and inability to concentrate, express emotions and carry out daily chores are some common manifestations of this mental disorder. Disease diagnosis is given on […]
Hari Krishnan R, SRM Institute of Science and Technology An Epithelial-Mesenchymal transition is a reversible event that occurs in embryonic development and cancer. As indicated by the name, this process involves the conversion of epithelial cells to mesenchymal cells. Cells undergoing this process are highly capable of migration, proliferation, and differentiation into various cell types. […]
Akash Singh, Banaras Hindu University Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), which affects over 20 million new cases annually, imposes an increased financial burden on healthcare systems worldwide in conjunction with the attributable high morbidity and mortality. The early identification of risk individuals and the swift implementation of primary and secondary preventative measures can however prevent most […]
Sugnyan Shivakumar, JSS Science and Technology University Understanding Stem Cells Stem cells are cells that can transform themselves into specialized cell types in the body that can be used as a replacement for injured cells and tissues. Potten and Loeffler, 1990 in their review came up with a functional definition for stem cells as undifferentiated […]
Sayan Roy, M.Sc. Biotechnology, Pondicherry University tRNAs are the intricate biological molecules involved in the flow of genetic information from DNA to protein by reading codons in mRNA. Besides tRNA and mRNA, several non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been discovered by scientists over the past few decades that include long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and small non-coding […]
PRIYANKA CHAKRABORTY, AMITY UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA The incurable eye disease Glaucoma leads to partial or total vision loss in approximately 80 million people. Therefore, it was extremely crucial to find a way around this complicated disease; the relation between metabolic disturbance in the nerve cells in the retina and high intraocular pressure. Moreover, in animal models, […]
PRIYANKA CHAKRABORTY, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Recently, researchers from various universities in Spain hypothesized that serum zinc level had a particular influence on COVID-19 patients, further stating it as a useful biomarker in predicting COVID-19 in its’ early stage. In an observational study of 249 COVID-19 patients to identify the severity of the disease and to […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata Breast cancer has become one of the common diseases affecting both men and women worldwide, though most common in women as of yet. There are multifactorial reasons for the formation of breast cancer, depending on the type of breast cancer. A common trait observed in all cancer patients is an […]
