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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Subhajit Nan, Amity University, Kolkata In the ongoing pandemic where the lion’s share of information and research is based on SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, one particular observation regarding another virus should definitely be a cause of concern in the scientific community. What are the viruses, their symptoms, and modes of […]
Anuska Sen, Team BioXone The International Clinical Trials Day is celebrated on the 20th of May each year to commemorate the enormous contributions of clinical trials and their participants to the various fields of science. The purpose of celebrating this day is to let people know about the importance of clinical trials and spread the […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Last month the city of Kolkata had reported a double mutant type B.1.617 strain of COVID19. Today, an indigenous triple mutant variety B.1.618 is identified. This strain, dubbed as the “Bengal strain” by Scientists, is much more infective compared to the previous ones and what is terrifying them more is […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata The toxin of the cone-like ocean snail (Conus nux) was used to manufacture medicines against intense fever and forms of infections in step with research from the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) School of Medication. The researchers as a team started from the likelihood that non-stick medications could be the way […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata. The GACVS COVID-19 Vaccine Safety subcommittee met virtually on Tuesday, January 2021, to review available information and data of mortalities reported in frail, elderly individuals who had received the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, BNT162b2 (hereafter, BNT162b2). Experts invited from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and therefore the Uppsala Monitoring […]
Ayushman Kumar Banerjee With over 43 million COVID-19 cases having surfaced and more than 1.1 million deaths, researchers are relentlessly working round the clock to develop vaccines against the virus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19. This has led to a race for a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, and in this race, Moderna has devised […]
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. […]
