Hari Krishnan R, SRM Institute of Science and Technology The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic originated in 2019 and has affected people worldwide in various aspects. Now, with the arrival of vaccinations and better precautions, the pandemic is under control in various parts of the world. Scientists have spent day and night working to obtain a better […]
Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata Cardiovascular complications in patients with COVID-19 require attention. Patients having comorbidities like acute cardiac injury, arrhythmia hypertension, and coronary artery disease have been associated with increased mortality. The novel coronavirus, conversely, increases the risk of developing cardiovascular pathologies like cardiomyopathy, acute coronary syndrome, myocarditis, thromboembolism, and various arrhythmias. In several […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University, Kolkata Severe respiratory disease coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) results in the extensively devastating disease, COVID-19, of the recent century. One of the unsolved scientific concerns around SARS-CoV-2 is the animal lineage of this virus. Bats and pangolins are acknowledged as considerably reasonable reservoir hosts that harbor the highly related SARS-CoV-2 related viruses. Identification […]
Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is currently raging across our country, and in its most lethal form by far. While scientists are still carrying out extensive research for a permanent one-size-fits-all cure, there are other forms of treatment and prevention strategies. They include vaccine development, designing of macromolecular neutralizing antibodies, and […]
Samreek Bhatta, Delhi Public School, Megacity, Kolkata Purpose of World Food Safety Day: World Food Safety Day (WFSD) celebrated on the 7th of June each year, aims at drawing attention and encouraging people to take action to facilitate the reduction, prevention, and detection of foodborne risks, that contribute to food security, human health, sustainable development, […]
Ananya Dutta, Bose Institute Various national and international health organizations have emphasized the significance of testing each and every individual in a population and ensuing the contact tracing in order to arrest the outspread of the COVID-19 virus. The existing diagnostic approach is a two-step procedure involving a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction followed by real-time […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University, Kolkata Virologists have infected many miniature organs with SARS-CoV-2, to learn how the virus wreaks havoc and the means to prevent it. Chen, a stem-cell biologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, and her team had nurtured them from clumps of human cells, adding nutrients every occasional day as […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta At this time in the pandemic when we have ongoing vaccination drives, a new development in the pharmaceutical industry could prove to be a step towards enhanced protection and ability to fight against COVID-19 infections. This is the development of two drugs developed by Australian scientists from QIMR Berghofer Medical […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela In the last two decades, corona-viral diseases became a major public health issue, starting with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) outbreak in 2002 through 2003, then the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in 2012, and currently, the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been observed that […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata CK2 is a constitutively active Ser/Thr protein kinase, which phosphorylates many substrates, controls signaling pathways, implicates plenty of human sicknesses. Its best-recorded job is in cancer, where it manages every single hallmark of malignancy. Other notable functions of CK2 are in human diseases; specifically, viruses in viral infections misuse host […]
