Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Hormones vs ageing: Generally, it is observed that men have a shorter life span than women and it has been found that the reason behind this is hormones, but now this could be altered resulting in an increased lifespan. A research team from the Department of Anatomy of the University […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata It is said that labour pain equals pain felt when 20 bones crack at the same time. Ouch. Just thinking about it is painful. A woman indeed is a strong and marvellous creation of God who is bestowed with the gift of creating Life. This gift comes with a price, […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Two new species of Mammal-like burrowing animals have been discovered in Northeastern China. These animals lived around 120 million years ago, and though both are distantly related, they have independently evolved the traits for digging. Paleontologists call them the first “Scratch-diggers” of the ecosystem. Organisms live underground for a variety […]
– Shristi Sharma, Team BioXone ICMR-National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases recruiting for Project Research Associate position for Life Sciences candidates. Research positions for life science candidates at NICED, details given below: No. 0 I/Broad Specificity Salmonella Vaccine/2021-22 The following post is to be filled up on a purely short-term basis under the ad-hoc […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata José M. Polo, PhD, a professor of anatomy and developmental biology at Monash University, discovered a way to generate induced blastoids or iBlastoids that imitates the natural human blastoids; made up of reprogrammed skin cells. Molecular and functional assays were performed to demonstrate that the structures were blastocyst-like structures that […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Insects come under the Phylum Arthropod, ironically the largest phylum in the Animal Kingdom. Over the past several decades the number of species has declined. Initially, it was believed that this was happening due to habitat loss or excessive use of pesticides, but it came off as a bit of […]
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 […]
