Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in the United States, which happens to women but is also seen in men in some rare cases. Now, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a specific type of breast cancer where the cancer cells show negative results for estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, […]
Shrestha Sherry Chakraborty, Amity University Kolkata Cancer is marked by the uncontrollable growth of malignant cells which then spread by metastasizing to different regions of the body. To battle against this deadly disease, a variety of treatments have evolved with years of research and development overcoming complex challenges and hurdles. The most well known of […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata More than one million people around the world are diagnosed with stomach cancer every year. Stomach cancer is an abnormal growth of the cells that tends to develop slowly over many years. Before true cancer develops, the early changes rarely cause any symptoms and therefore go undetected. In its advanced stage, […]
Anish Pyne, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Although we usually tend to fear the painful sting of a Honeybee since our early childhood days, science offers a different perspective for it. Studies suggest that honeybee venom can be one of the most crucial weapons for mankind. Recently, an in vitro study conducted in Harry Perkins […]
Milanckona Das, Amity University Kolkata The desire to eliminate cancer permanently has remained an unattainable feat for scientists to this day. Although difficult to realize, it is a fact that our bodies continually deal with cancer on a minuscule level, daily. Immunotherapy is typically associated with cancer treatment, to effectively cause the cancellation of long-lasting […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata Oncolytic viruses are genetically engineered for the destruction of cancer or tumour-causing cells specifically. They’re delivered for treatment inside the body via intravenous injection. In 2015, one such oncolytic virus was approved by the FDA for treating skin cancer, melanoma. A major obstacle in the application of oncolytic adenoviruses is that […]
SRILAGNA SARKAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY One of the deadliest and diagnosed diseases in the world is colon cancer. Though the last few decades have seen an improvement in colon cancer with routine screening and early detection, despite all these it still claims thousands of lives every year. The current treatments for colon cancer are through surgery […]
Srishti Deb, Amity University, Kolkata Nanoparticle: Technobiology’s wireless messenger – With the advancement of science and modern technologies, a more promising technology of drug delivery to selective tissues is used. This is a more potent targeted delivery process of therapeutic agents, that significantly eliminates drug or drug carrier side effects. Drug design and drug delivery […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Past proof in mice has exhibited that NK cell-inferred IFN-gamma can advance immunoevasion by chiselling the immunogenicity of creating tumours in a process known as cancer immunoediting. This process includes the disposal of the high immunogenic unedited tumour, followed by the inevitable break of less immunogenic altered tumour cell variants […]
PRIASHA DUTTA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL One of the leading causes of mortality in the present-day world is cancer. Whenever we think of cancer treatment, the two words that are immediately synonymous are chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Although, due to limited efficacy based on the heterogeneity factor of cancer cells, there is a constant […]
