Shatakshi Roy, Manipal School of Life Sciences, MAHE Introduction A common misconception in the world of medicine is that ayurvedic health care is based on non-scientific sources and thus cannot be trusted. Ayurveda was one of the first, if not the first approach to treat ailments reigning as the sole method to cure patients for […]
Srabani Roy Chowdhury (MAKAUT, WB) HGSC or High-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma is considered to be an aggressive type of ovarian cancer. Deleterious mutations present in the DNA repair gene RAD51C are drivers of defective homologous recombination in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma (HGSC). These are emerging biomarkers of PARP inhibitor sensitivity. A PARP inhibitor is targeted […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College Background There are important modifications in how homogeneous neoplasms should be assessed and identified, which have considerable therapeutic implications and extensive biological interest. The fourth most prevalent cancer in children is non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The occurrence of NHL in the members within the family is known as familial NHL, which […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University What is HJMD? HJMD or Hypotrichosis with macular dystrophy is an autosomal syndrome commonly found in young children. It is caused by a mutation in a gene CDH3, responsible for encoding a protein in hair follicles, and the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). CDH3 encodes a glycoprotein known as P-cadherin, found at […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic due to the SARS-CoV 2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome) viral strain has posed a high concern worldwide. This is because of the associated high mortality and the devising of effective treatment strategies. It has been nothing short of devastating at the global level leading […]
Moumita Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Introduction Prosopagnosia is an impairment that causes the inability to acknowledge previously known faces and to find out new faces. It is also known as “face-blindness”. It may occur as a developmental variant or after a brain lesion. Humans have acquired the flexibility of recognizing faces effortlessly, rapidly, and accurately […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata “Of course, it’s happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?” that’s what Dumbledore said to Harry right? But at the end of the day, it is considered fiction, the entire Harry Potter. What if such a fictional world is the reality for someone? That’s […]
– Sagnik Nag, Amity University, Kolkata The occurrence of an exceptional pathogenic human Coronavirus in the Middle East has gained novel distress in human coronaviruses around the globe. Considering the current global uncontrollable pandemic situation the researchers have fabricated two novel COVID-19 diagnostic tests. This need for a novel diagnostic test tool kit is to bridge […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata More than one million people around the world are diagnosed with stomach cancer every year. Stomach cancer is an abnormal growth of the cells that tends to develop slowly over many years. Before true cancer develops, the early changes rarely cause any symptoms and therefore go undetected. In its advanced stage, […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder occurring when nerve cells, or neurons, in an area of the brain that controls movement become impaired and/or die. It is a progressive disorder of the central nervous system that affects millions of people worldwide. However, even after being such a wide-spread disease, there […]
