Husna, Amity University Kolkata What is Antibiotic resistance (AR)? Antibiotic resistance (AR) is the biological phenomenon that occurs when germs like bacteria become resistant to an antibiotic and develop an ability to defeat the drugs that are designed to kill the bacteria. That means the bacteria continue to grow instead of getting killed by the […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Who soared the empty skies 360 million years ago? Not the Pterosaurs. Not the Birds. Definitely not the Bats. They were the Insects. They flew before anything else did. The origin of wings among these tiny arthropods was however an enigma, it bugged the Scientists for over a Century. There […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. Quite a mouthful isn’t it? In the name itself is hidden, its definition. It is composed of short identical palindromic DNA segments that are separated with spacer DNA, which are all unique. There are also a number of genes associated with […]
Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta In 1965, a group of British oncologists viewed DNA fragments which were floating around chromosomes in cancer cells. For decades, there has been largely ignored as cellular debris. Recent advancements of technology in the field of genetics and cellular biology has paved a way for better understanding of complex diseases […]
Shrayana Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata According to a new study by UC San Francisco scientists, gene editing for the generation of different treatments and the study of disease and normal function in humans and other organisms may develop more rapidly with a new tool for cutting larger pieces of DNA out of the genome of […]
