Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela The SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated very frequently over time that resulted in genetic variation of circulating viral strains throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Viral mutations can enhance virulence as well as transmissibility in humans. It affects the antigen and serology tests due to the inherent design differences of each […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University For the past one and a half years, we have been struggling with COVID19. The deadly pandemic has taken millions of lives all over the world. Meanwhile, the huge demand has deaccelerated the vaccine rollout. The plan to deal with COVID19 includes extensive testing, contact tracing, quarantining, […]
Madhavi Bhatia, NIPER Guwahati Coronavirus infection recovery provides a significant amount of immunity to individuals but there are some cases that have revealed that even after successfully recovering from COVID-19 infection there are chances of re-infection. This is mainly found to be due to mutation in the virus leading to different variants like alpha and […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta As the second wave progresses, we are increasingly seeing new and “unpredictable” symptoms associated with the coronavirus. One among those conditions that have silently been causing serious damage is the condition called “Happy Hypoxia”. What is Happy Hypoxia? It is a condition associated with COVID-19 that “seems to defy basic […]
Anuska Sen, Team BioXone Abbreviations used in the following article: 2-DG: 2-deoxy-D-glucose DRDO: Defence Research and Development Organization INMAS: Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences DCGI: Drugs Controller General of India The 2-DG anti-covid drug jointly developed by DRDO’s INMAS laboratory and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories has finally been launched yesterday (Monday, 17th May, 2021). […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University Kolkata On November 18, 2020, the Medica EasyRA benchtop clinical chemistry analyzer was distributed and serviced by Greensboro-based company, which provides healthcare officials and staff to keep a routine test on blood chemistries to include and check metabolic activity profiles, liver enzymes, proper kidney functioning glucose levels, and cardiovascular tests. These […]
-Ruchita Karmakar, Amity University Kolkata A research team led by Debojyoti Chakraborty and Souvik Maiti of CSIR and TATA group came up with a new test named FELUDA to detect COVID-19. It’s a paper test strip that gives a precise result within 30 minutes; Approved for commercial launch by the Drugs Controller General of India. […]
-Anwesha Chatterjee, Amity University Kolkata The novel coronavirus is spreading rapidly throughout the world. It is impossible to restrict the spread of the SARS-CoV-2. A huge proportion of the population across the world got infected and showed the most common to mild to serious symptoms (fever, dry cough, respiratory problems, conjunctivitis, aches, pains, rashes, and many more) along with the high […]
–Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech in a joint effort with analysts from the ICMR’s National Institute of Virology, based in Pune has delivered the information from the creature preliminaries of its immunization competitor. It demonstrated that Covaxin had the option to produce ‘robust immune responses. The two-portion vaccination routine of Covaxin […]
-Binayak Das,Team bioXone A team of scientists has successfully isolated what they believe to be, as being the smallest biological molecule found till date, it being approximately one-tenth the size of an average antibody molecule. They have designed a therapeutic and pre-emptive drug called- Ab8 using it, which they propose will be able to not […]
