BioXone Biosciences has come up with Batch 2 of the Workshop Cum Internship program on Scientific Content Writing for all Bioscience (Life science) students who are interested to learn scientific writing from the very basics. Mode: Attend all the sessions from the comfort of your home (Online mode) Eligibility criteria: Any student/academic of any bioscience-related […]
BioXone Biosciences has come up with an opportunity for all Bioscience (Life science) students to learn scientific writing from the very basics. Mode: Attend all the sessions from the comfort of your home (Online mode) Eligibility criteria: Any student of any Bioscience-related field who is interested to learn scientific writing from scratch. Tenure: 1 monthWeekend […]
Debarati Basu, Makaut WB BIOXONE BIOSCIENCES SERIES – “Extraordinary Women in Biosciences”- Day 1. Dr. Renu Swarup- the iconic woman who supported microbial diversity studies so vividly in India, that scientists named an entirely newly discovered species after her as a tribute. The first-ever women secretary of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India is […]
Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University, Kolkata Biomedical engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently developed a biocompatible adhesive inspired from barnacle glue. Most of the time, wound healing and tissue repair are very complicated processes and the existing methodologies to seal a wound or torn tissue are time consuming, complex and are at risk of […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Adaptive laboratory evolution has become a substantial tool for the development of microbial strains with enhanced genetically modified features. The long-term Escherichia coli evolution experiment is a good example. It has emphasized how evolution under adequate conditions can be utilized to understand adaptive processes. These experiments have helped to determine the possible evolutionary […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Secondary Metabolites as a Natural Defense System in Microbes: All living beings inherit a natural defence system for ascertaining their survival. Microorganisms are mostly dependent upon the synthesized natural products that serve as a defence system against threats posed by the environment. This enables them to fight against other microorganisms. […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata We are all well aware of the increasing number of deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With over 3.42 million deaths recorded, the pandemic continues to impose risk on both the economic as well as healthcare sectors. COVID-19 or coronavirus is caused by SARS-CoV-2, which is an enveloped virus […]
Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University, Kolkata Hearing impairment is one of the most common modes of sensory damage in humans and animals. Most hearing impairments are hereditary, i.e., they are inherited from parents before birth. Despite being common, the underlying mechanisms of hereditary deafness are complex and little understood. The most common cause of hearing loss […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Taste is one of our most important senses. Without it, we would never know the pleasure of eating ice cream on a hot summer afternoon and drinking our favorite tea while reading a Jane Austin classic. Memory retrieval is the basic ability of organisms to make use of acquired and […]
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 […]
