Seshadri Dutta, NIIT University Introduction The global population is increasing at an alarming rate, with a quarter of the world’s population anticipated to reach 10 billion in the next 30 years. In the current situation, the most pressing problem facing humanity is ensuring food security for an expanding population. Extreme weather, decreasing agricultural land availability, […]
Nandini Pharasi, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology CRISPR/Cas9 is a method that allows for the extremely precise and fast alteration of DNA in a genome, which is an organism’s full set of genetic instructions. This illustration demonstrates genome editing. CRISPR is a programmed technique of altering DNA. To utilize it, researchers insert a DNA-cutting enzyme […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University, Noida Farmers would need to cultivate 50% more food on a limited quantity of arable land by 2050 to feed a predicted 9 billion people. As a result, plant scientists are racing against the clock to improve photosynthesis to design crops with better yields. Researchers are attempting to incorporate components […]
Supriyo Mukherjee, Kalyani Mahavidyalaya Scientific researches have unveiled a novel conformation of gigantic, extrachromosomal DNA in mud-dwelling archaea, as stated in a preprint posted on July 10, 2021, on bioRxiv. Extrachromosomal elements (ECE) comprise structures such as plasmids, megaplasmids, viruses, etc. which give rise to attributes like antibiotic resistance in bacteria. However, as reported in […]
Aayushi Gaur; U.I.E.T, Kurukshetra University CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, accompanying it ‘Cas’, an acronym for CRISPR-associated protein. Cas can be readily modified to target particular portions of DNA and to turn genes on/off without changing their sequence. It is a form of genome editing technology that is utilized to make […]
Souhrid Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata UNDERSTADING BIOLOGICAL WARFARE Biological warfare is a primitive concept that has been in use for nearly 2000 years. Evidence for the deliberate use of microorganisms and toxins as bioweapons are there throughout history. Biological warfare is the use of biological toxins or infectious pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and […]
Akash Singh, Banaras Hindu University We’ve discovered the structure of DNA, the blueprint for life, constructed computers to read it, and mastered the power to rewrite it in the last 70 years. With real-time genomic sequencing and new-generation mRNA vaccinations, gene technologies have allowed us to track and combat COVID-19 faster than any other outbreak […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University Noida CRISPR is a highly innovative technique, used in gene editing. Usually, CRISPR is known to eliminate undesirable genes, but activation of genes to provide the functionality to a plant or organisms is pretty new. But recently a study conducted by a group of researchers in Nature Plants, headed by […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata CRISPR- Cas 9 gene-editing system, we all have heard of that isn’t it? A giant in Gene editing. Well here’s the thing- There is something even more interesting than that. Retrons: A group of researchers at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School have created a new gene-editing tool called Retron […]
-Shristi Sharma, Team bioXone NICED Life Science Job – Project Research Associate Vacancy. ICMR-National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases recruiting for Project Research Associate position for MSc/Ph.D. Life Sciences candidates. Research positions for life science candidates at NICED, details given below: No. 01/CRISPER Based Diagnosis/2020-21 Title of Job: Project Research Associate-I No. of Posts: […]
