Sumedha B S, Bangalore University The novel human coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 has created a global disease burden infecting>100 million humans in just over a year. It has become a major challenge to the health system worldwide. Detection is very crucial in this pandemic. Studies have shown that early detection is very necessary for disease control. Currently, […]
Komal Bavaskar, D Y Patil University BIOXONE BIOSCIENCES SERIES – “Extraordinary Women in Biosciences”- Day 5 Andrea Wainer: an exceptional woman in the history of Abbott. She is currently the vice president of Abbott’s Rapid & Molecular Diagnostics and is also considered one of the world’s leading providers of rapid point-of-care diagnostics. Wainer’s Early life: Andrea […]
Aqsa, Jamia Millia Islamia The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is still unlocking many unknown facts about it. With every new strain, different symptoms and post symptoms are still underway of getting understood. One such post covid symptom is reduced intelligence. To understand the possible cognitive consequences of COVID-19, a study on people who recovered from Covid […]
Saakshi Bangera, DY Patil School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Despite the improving research methodologies and treatments, COVID-19 continues to spread, causing deaths and morbidity across the world. It has been found that statins can potentially decrease the severity of COVID-19. However, this field has been less researched due to limited size and region-centred studies. Statins […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College. It has been more than half a century that the Coronaviruses (CoVs) have been rampantly spreading across the globe. This has led to the current pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, which extends a momentum to be able to characterize the largely expressed protein, the Nucleocapsid (N) protein. This N protein is […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University All over the world research is currently focused on the development of a drug that might help cure COVID19. At the moment we do not have any treatment for COVID19. Vaccines are the only way the chain of transmission can be broken. Throughout the pandemic, various drugs […]
Akshita Kumar,M.Sc. Biochemistry The therapeutic function of helminths in the modulation and/or deregulation of immune responses in COVID-19 patients has recently been a contentious topic. Richard Bradbury (School of Health and Life Sciences, Federation University, Berwick, Victoria, Australia) and his colleagues (Bradbury et al. 2020) initially proposed that helminths might inadvertently cause severe COVID-19 infections […]
Saptaparna Pal, Amity University Kolkata The Union Health Ministry’s Directorate General of Health Sciences (DGHS) has proposed revised Covid-19 guidelines and removed all medicines except antipyretic (fever) and antitussive (cold) for mild and asymptomatic cases. The revised Covid-19 guidelines issued on 27 May 2021 dropped all medicines that the doctors have been prescribing even to […]
Koustav Maiti, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara A young man flying back to India from London, on 20th December, 2020, tests positive for the new COVID-19 strain. He was among 222 passengers who arrived on the same plane. It had been the last flight from London before the Indian government banned all the flights […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Microbial Ecology known as environmental microbiology is the study of microorganisms’ relationship with each other as well as their environment. The main goal of researchers in this department is to capture the maximum amount of information from all organisms that are present in a given sample. Traditionally DNA-based protocols are […]
