Aqsa, Jamia Millia Islamia The Delta Strain: The world has witnessed various strains of the Covid-19 virus. These strains are the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta strains. These were previously known as the UK, South Africa, Brazilian, and Indian variants, respectively indicating the country of their origin. Among these, the delta variant is the deadliest mutation […]
Anuska Sen, Team BioXone The International Clinical Trials Day is celebrated on the 20th of May each year to commemorate the enormous contributions of clinical trials and their participants to the various fields of science. The purpose of celebrating this day is to let people know about the importance of clinical trials and spread the […]
Souhrid Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata What is COVID-19? Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that may cause mild to severe respiratory disorders including death. The term ‘Corona’ means crown-like spikes on the surface of the virus. Some of the examples of coronavirus are Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and […]
Srilagna Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata Tata Medical and Diagnostics are in talks to team up with India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in order to carry out Moderna’s vaccine candidate in India. Tata Group’s healthcare venture is said to have started the initial discussion with Moderna Inc on partnership in launching its COVID-19 vaccine […]
Ankita Chattopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata Previously, COVID19 was associated with the onset of numerous symptoms that ranged from mild to moderate severity, starting from cough and fever to complete loss of movement in some cases. Unusual numbers of people from all over the world started showing different sorts of symptoms with different severities, at some […]
-Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta Covaxin, India’s indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, has been a subject of criticism due to its approval for restricted emergency use despite hot having published any phase 3 efficacy data. However, until recently, Bharat Biotech, the manufacturer of Covaxin claimed that its vaccine potentially generated safety data with the robust immune response […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata When dealing with treatments relating to human health, we need to take care of two things: i.) the cure should be developed on the basis of all criteria including the majority of the population, and ii.) side-effects should be absent or negligible. Any drug or vaccine to be identified safe, […]
SAMRAT SARKAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Where the entire world is trying to find a way out of this pandemic situation, Bharat Biotech with collaborated with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have gone for another massive bang on the pandemic by trying a new novel chimp-adenovirus, a single-dose intranasal vaccine for Covid-19 using […]
