Anjali Kumari, IILM College of Engineering and Technology Longer gap (up to 45 weeks) between the Covid-19 vaccines may increase the immune response. According to a new study from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, it has been stated that a gap of up to 45 weeks between the first and second doses […]
Richa Prakash, Central University of Punjab With today’s situation of wearing masks as a public health tool because of Covid-19, it is very important to understand how the side leakage of expiratory particles impacts the overall efficacy of these masks. There is a history of wearing masks to reduce expiratory particles emission from the time […]
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 […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata The coronavirus disease or COVID is something that is shaking the entire portrait of the lives of people in the world right now. This single-stranded, positive-sensed, enveloped virus has given rise to a pandemic in the 21st century. In such a situation, learning about the different mutants, variants, and strains […]
Monika R, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Vaccines save millions of lives every year because they are one of the most effective ways of immunization against many infectious diseases. They have played a great role in the worldwide eradication of smallpox and the control of other infectious diseases such as measles, rubella, tetanus, and polio. […]
Madhavi Bhatia,NIPER Guwahati SARS-covid-19 is now well-known as a severe acute respiratory syndrome that has affected all parts of the world. It has caused almost 3.9 million deaths worldwide resulting in a global pandemic. To curb the disease, various drugs are approved and used worldwide. Today, immunization is considered a safe and effective tool to […]
Neha khan, Jamia Millia Islamia What is the alpha variant? The B.1.1.7 variant is known as the Alpha variant which was first found in India and had taken thousands of lives. This coronavirus variant is more infectious than other variants because it foils the innate immune system for a while till it replicates and finds […]
Saakshi Bangera, DY Patil School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Sarah Nyquist is a PhD candidate in MIT’s computational and systems biology department who attempted to use machine learning to understand the genomic composition of breast milk. Along with her co-advisor professors – Alex Shalek and Bonnie Berger, she aimed at using computational tools to study […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University A recently published new study states that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine immune system reactions have proved to offer long-lasting protection against COVID-19. mRNA vaccines have created more and better germinal centre B cell responses, thus indicating that the immunity system would be much more impactful and offer long-lasting […]
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 […]
