Ayushman Kumar Banerjee With over 43 million COVID-19 cases having surfaced and more than 1.1 million deaths, researchers are relentlessly working round the clock to develop vaccines against the virus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19. This has led to a race for a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, and in this race, Moderna has devised […]
Binayak Das, Team Bioxone A study conducted to unravel the potential of immunotherapy for patients affected by the covid-19 virus has announced that treatment with intravenous-immunoglobulin can potentially benefit covid-19 patients that are severely affected. Intravenous immunoglobulin or IVIG is the collection of IgG obtained from the blood serum of a large number of healthy […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata With the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, certain fundamental yet important questions come into the mind of various people. One such question is, “Can breastfeeding lead to the transmission of the coronavirus from a mother to her newborn?” The transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection from a mother to her child during the pregnancy […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Emerged in 2019, and spread rapidly, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) impacted economies worldwide, overwhelming health-care systems, as it infected millions causing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). To respond, a worldwide effort has been initiated to develop vaccines and therapeutic agents. For COVID-19 vaccine development, the trimeric […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata As the world is waiting anxiously for a powerful and effective vaccine against covid-19, researchers are also trying to identify how coronavirus attacks the body to stop its devastating impact. One such possible way has been discovered in a recent study by researchers of John Hopkins University. This can be done […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata The coronavirus, or the virus which has resulted in the whole world to shutdown, the ecosystem to change and us to depend completely on technology (to manage the economic conditions) and their immunity (since its more or less the survival of the fittest) first started its game in Wuhan, China. […]
Soumya Sarathi Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Virologists were working on two areas of SARS-CoV-2 research at KU Leuven Rega Institute. In one line developing a vaccine that can prevent infection, and in another line of research, they are thriving in search of existing drugs by which the amount of virus can be reduced […]
-Sampriti Roy, Asutosh College, University of Calcutta. “As a result of this unique human viral expression system based on stem cells, it will now be possible to simulate a large number of diseases in their progression and, for the first time, analyse them with the utmost precision”, said Guiscard Seebohm, delighted at the success of […]
-Raddur Samaddar, Team bioXone While the world is waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine with absolute eagerness, the closest promising immunological treatment that can help stop the rate of the ever-increasing spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is the Convalescent Plasma Therapy. This treatment relies upon the transfusion of the anti-viral antibodies from donors to recipients with […]
Snigdha Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata COVID-19 pandemic has spread tremors around the globe within a few months and this December 2020, it’s going to be one year that we all are combating to formulate and identify such effective drugs against it. Research and multiple clinical trials proved that some anti-viral drugs like – (Remdesivir, Chloroquine) […]
