Saakshi Bangera, DY Patil School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is the most generic subtype of irreversible blindness. Primary open-angle glaucoma primarily affects the people of African heritage. Among Europeans, the prevalence of POAG is approximately 1%, whereas, in African-Americans, this value ranges between 4-5%. Additionally, individuals of African ancestry experience an […]
Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida Oxford University researchers have announced that volunteers have received the first HIV (Human immunodeficiency) vaccination to find an effective cure for the virus. It has been 40 years since an effective HIV vaccine has been discovered. Trials are underway to develop an effective vaccine against HIV. The […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Rheumatoid Arthritis and osteoporosis: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease that mostly occurs in synovial joints. Its symptoms are local bone loss depicted by juxta-articular osteoporosis, and systemic bone loss depicted by generalized osteoporosis. Among these two symptoms, generalized osteoporosis is more common in patients with RA […]
Shreyas bhat , DY Patil School of biotechnology and bioinformatics What is sleep apnea? Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder in which frequent on and off events of breathing take place repeatedly. If you snore loudly and feel tired even after sleeping for more than 8hrs, you might have sleep apnea. The major types of […]
Aparna Pandey, IILM Academy of Higher learning and Education, Greater Noida Extracellular vesicles are small sheaths particles derived from various cell types. Extracellular vesicles are lipid bilayer-enclosed, cytosol-containing spheres that are liberated by all eukaryotes and prokaryotic cells into the extracellular environment. Small RNAs plays an important role in different cellular processes like differentiation in […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University What is Cholera? Cholera is a diarrheal sickness caused by the toxigenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae infecting the intestine. Each year, an estimated 2.9 million cases and 95,000 deaths occur in the population worldwide. The World Health Organization estimates that 1.3 million to 4 million people are infected with cholera each year, […]
Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University, Kolkata Malaria is not something unknown to us. Occurring when an infected female Anopheles mosquito bites a person, it accounts for over 400,000 deaths every year. The onset occurs when the parasite Plasmodium enters the human bloodstream and infects the liver cells and finally, the red blood cells. While vaccines are […]
Madhavi Bhatia, NIPER Guwahati Coronavirus infection recovery provides a significant amount of immunity to individuals but there are some cases that have revealed that even after successfully recovering from COVID-19 infection there are chances of re-infection. This is mainly found to be due to mutation in the virus leading to different variants like alpha and […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata According to the research done by an OU Hudson College of the public health faculty working in conjunction with colleagues in Denmark, a new type of bacterial spreading method has been found. The infection caused by campylobacter is one of the most common foodborne illnesses in the western world […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta As the second wave progresses, we are increasingly seeing new and “unpredictable” symptoms associated with the coronavirus. One among those conditions that have silently been causing serious damage is the condition called “Happy Hypoxia”. What is Happy Hypoxia? It is a condition associated with COVID-19 that “seems to defy basic […]
