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 […]
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 […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University For the past one and a half years, we have been struggling with COVID19. The deadly pandemic has taken millions of lives all over the world. Meanwhile, the huge demand has deaccelerated the vaccine rollout. The plan to deal with COVID19 includes extensive testing, contact tracing, quarantining, […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University Kolkata The most recently discovered strain of SARS-CoV-2 was held accountable for corona virus disease (COVID-19) and the pandemic henceforth. Ongoing infection has taken the lives of a huge number of individuals on the planet. As of now there’s so much that we don’t know about this viral infection- it’s the […]
Avipsha Datta, Department of Biophysics and Molecular Biology, University of Calcutta Covid-19 Vaccine- the one thing we are very much hoping for right now! Well, here is some news update that might give us a little more hope. The Drugmaker Company Moderna has announced that it is preparing to launch its potential Coronavirus vaccine mRNA-1273.Meanwhile, […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University Kolkata The emergence of an exceedingly pathogenic human Coronavirus in the Middle East has sparked novel concern in human coronaviruses around the world. Standing today we know all the precautions that are to be followed during this pandemic situation. The general symptoms about the outbreak of the Covid -19, but the […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata The coronavirus, or the virus which has resulted in the whole world to shutdown, the ecosystem to change and us to depend completely on technology (to manage the economic conditions) and their immunity (since its more or less the survival of the fittest) first started its game in Wuhan, China. […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata After the recovery of President Donald Trump from Covid-19 using a similar therapy as of the antibody medicine from AstraZeneca Plc, the company has started its late-stage trials for the same against COVID-19. The medicine will undergo two trials on more than 60000 people starting soon. Astra has also planned […]
-Sagnik Nag, Amity University With the increasing cases of COVID fever, there’s still hope for upcoming vaccines within a few months. The hope came with a massive responsibility on the Government for mapping out its extensive cold storage to ensure the quick delivery of the vaccine across the country. A national expert group surveyed to […]
