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 […]
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 […]
Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata In New Delhi, since ILBS Hospital, initiates its plasma bank from July, requests have poured in continuously. Jai Prakash said that when someone close to you is about to die, you will take whatever form of hope you can find, age of 44, who obtained plasma last month for his […]
Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata ICMR officials said on Tuesday that The Drugs Controller General of India has given authorization for conducting Phase-1 human clinical trial for an “antisera” that was developed by injecting inactivated SARS-CoV-2 in horses and can be a treatment for COVID-19. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in alliance with a Hyderabad-based vaccine maker […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata The alarming hypothesis that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic to be around for several years calls for rapid and successful therapies. Though anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike monoclonal antibodies originated from mice have shown robust performance in various immunoassays including western blotting, ELISA, immunofluorescence, and immunoprecipitation, there is still a […]
Anwita Sarkar, Team BioXone Based on what we know so far about the complications of COVID-19, it frequently involves complications that bear similarities to autoimmune disorders. Up to now, there are little reports on possible IgA mediated autoimmune responses. A study was conducted to determine the association of COVID-19 with vigorous total IgA responses. It […]
-Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in partnership with Hyderabad-based vaccine maker Biological E, has developed a “highly purified antisera” which will be utilized in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19. Antisera are blood sera that carry antibodies against a selected viral toxin or antigen and are introduced to […]
-Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Researchers have discovered that a drug, Catalase, might be the solution to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Catalase is a naturally occurring enzyme having the potential as a therapeutic drug treat COVID-19 symptom and suppress the replication of the virus inside the body. Catalase is produced naturally and employed by […]
-Srilagna Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata To compare the diagnostic efficacy of the two different reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test kits. Throat swab samples from 18 hospitalized patients who were clinically tested for COVID-19 and from 100 hospitalized patients who were COVID negative were taken.SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid was detected in throat swab samples of the […]
Srilagna Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata Coronavirus disease 2019, was first identified in Wuhan where 27 patients cases reported of pneumonia of some unknown aetiology were linked with an open seafood market. Despite several measures, the virus spread rapidly and by 11 March 2020 WHO declared it as a global pandemic. In the majority of patients […]
