Anuska Sen, Team BioXone When famous psychologist Carl Jung said, “Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients”, he was indeed correct. A doctor is a person who serves much more than his/her profession demands. He places his patients’ life ahead of his own, does endless overtime hours, takes endless calls during his rest […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela The SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated very frequently over time that resulted in genetic variation of circulating viral strains throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Viral mutations can enhance virulence as well as transmissibility in humans. It affects the antigen and serology tests due to the inherent design differences of each […]
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 […]
Shayan Ahmed, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi The concept of viral infection focuses on the transmission of viral particles from one individual and infecting someone close in contact. Researchers across the globe have created theories to explain the high prevalence of COVID-19 infection from the beginning of the crisis. They discovered that viral particles may […]
Shrestha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata COVID-19 has brought about severe acute respiratory syndrome Covid 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has developed into a worldwide pandemic, and no antiviral therapies have been supported to date. The angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) plays a key part in SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis as it permits viral passage into host cells. The study shows that […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University In the surge of COVID-19 infection, the healthcare system has been put under immense pressure and the response has been nothing short of developing and innovative. While the rate of people diagnosed with infection has decreased exponentially, the testing remains constant. Effective testing at the time of the pandemic has been […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University Noida For a very long time, monoclonal antibodies have been used in various fields (cancer studies) but currently, they are being used to counteract the effects of SARS-CoV-2 and its variant by being an active compound in the vaccine as well as therapeutic drugs. Hence, to understand B cell genomics […]
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 […]
Saptaparna Pal, Amity University Kolkata The Union Health Ministry’s Directorate General of Health Sciences (DGHS) has proposed revised Covid-19 guidelines and removed all medicines except antipyretic (fever) and antitussive (cold) for mild and asymptomatic cases. The revised Covid-19 guidelines issued on 27 May 2021 dropped all medicines that the doctors have been prescribing even to […]
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 […]
