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 […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata A new mechanism to help scientists fight against COVID – 19 and find new treatments for the disease has been elaborated by a team of researchers at the University of Warwick. Movements in nearly 300 protein structures of the spike protein of the virus are simulated using computational modelling techniques, […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Marine chemists Mitchell Christy, Yoshinori Uekusa, and others at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego, have described the genomic and life-history traits of three classes of RNA viruses that have caused endemic and global pandemics in the […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata The Food and Drug Administration announced granted emergency use authorization to Moderna’s mRNA–1273, it’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in individuals 18 and older Friday night, the second vaccination against the coronavirus in the United States one week after the agency authorized a similar vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech. Moderna’s vaccine […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Based on the vaccine against yellow fever, a team of researchers led by Professor Johan Neyts and Kai Dallmeier at Rega Institute at KU Leuven, Belgium, have developed a vaccine candidate against Covid-19 which also works against yellow fever. Results indicate that the vaccine is effective in hamsters and monkeys […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata The Cambridge, Massachusetts – based Biotech Company, Moderna asked for emergency authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to use its COVID – 19 vaccines, mRNA – 1273, after receiving confirmation about its safety and efficacy on Monday. According to a new study, the shots offer a strong protection […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata The utilization of antibodies to battle human illness goes back to the 1890s and it is in practice even today. The blood plasma of patients who have recovered from COVID-19 contains antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus which is called plasma therapy and used as a treatment for people with coronavirus […]
