Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is currently raging across our country, and in its most lethal form by far. While scientists are still carrying out extensive research for a permanent one-size-fits-all cure, there are other forms of treatment and prevention strategies. They include vaccine development, designing of macromolecular neutralizing antibodies, and […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta At this time in the pandemic when we have ongoing vaccination drives, a new development in the pharmaceutical industry could prove to be a step towards enhanced protection and ability to fight against COVID-19 infections. This is the development of two drugs developed by Australian scientists from QIMR Berghofer Medical […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata With the coronavirus pandemic taking over the world, people being locked in their undergoing depression, medical practitioners prescribing Procaz, sounds pretty ok, except for the fact that it might turn fishes into zombies? Researchers have discovered that long-term exposure to the medication makes guppies act all the more indistinguishable. […]
Shinjini Bandopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata Addiction is defined as a chronic, relapsing disease of the brain. It is a biological process that alters the neurochemical pathways in the brain. Although addictions may be of varying types, the most frequently occurring and the most damaging ones include substance abuse (drugs, alcohol, tobacco). Substance abuse physically affects […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Protein replacement therapy is a medical treatment that supplements or replaces a protein in a patient in whom this is absent or deficient. These are a very powerful class of drugs and are highly selective and specific in their targets. This makes them a very useful tool in modern science. […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata The data on COVID-19 infections during pregnancy is limited. Although mortality or casualty due to the infection isn’t reported yet some adverse outcomes have been reported in the infants of women with covid-19 infections. The infant born to a COVID-19 infected mother has low birth weight, feeding intolerance, respiratory problems. Other […]
Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata In New Delhi, since ILBS Hospital, initiates its plasma bank from July, requests have poured in continuously. Jai Prakash said that when someone close to you is about to die, you will take whatever form of hope you can find, age of 44, who obtained plasma last month for his […]
Binayak Das, Team Bioxone A study conducted to unravel the potential of immunotherapy for patients affected by the covid-19 virus has announced that treatment with intravenous-immunoglobulin can potentially benefit covid-19 patients that are severely affected. Intravenous immunoglobulin or IVIG is the collection of IgG obtained from the blood serum of a large number of healthy […]
Soumya Sarathi Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Bacterial infections leading to diseases or in many of the times increasing the severity of another disease are one of the most common issues faced by human beings. Increased resistance against mostly used antibiotics (drugs) is presently the biggest concern for healthcare professionals and the general public. […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College (Kolkata) Muscular dystrophy implies a group of inherited disorders that can cause loss of muscle tissue, muscle weakness and delayed development. which gets worse over time. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is such muscular dystrophy that worsens quickly unlike the other types of muscular dystrophy. DMD refers to the genetic disorder wherein […]
