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 […]
Souhrid Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata What is COVID-19? Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that may cause mild to severe respiratory disorders including death. The term ‘Corona’ means crown-like spikes on the surface of the virus. Some of the examples of coronavirus are Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Coronavirus became a household name, as the pandemic swept people off their feet, locking them in their houses, rendering them sick, leading to death on severe occasions. After months into the pandemic, in December 2020, the government of Israel approved the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination and proclaimed a mass immunization […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta An American biotechnology company ‘Moderna’, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts focuses on the discovery and development of drugs in addition to vaccine technologies. They exclusively use messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and designs vaccines to create a completely new generation of transformative medicines. Against COVID-19, Moderna has developed its mRNA vaccine candidate […]
-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 […]
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 […]
