Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University A chronic, neglected infectious illness, Chagas Disease (CD) affects many low and middle-income nations. The etiological agent (Trypanosoma cruzi) can also be transferred by blood transfusions, resulting in the spread of the disease from patients with CD to Europe and the United States. Around 7 million people in the globe suffer […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Lots of living organisms are used in Biotechnology as protein production hosts. They are extremely useful in drug development, biopharmaceuticals, and protein delivery. In this new research, earthworms are developed as next-generation animal protein production hosts, something that has never been done before. Escherichia coli, our favorite bacteria has been […]
Jayateerth S. Bhavikatti, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. Canine distemper virus (CDV), a highly contagious disease in animals, is responsible for the mortality of a variety of flesh-eating animals including Canidae, Procyonidae, Felidae, Mustelidae, etc. This infection leads to complications in gastrointestinal, respiratory, and neurological parts of their bodies. The infection has been witnessed in […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata The alarming hypothesis that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic to be around for several years calls for rapid and successful therapies. Though anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike monoclonal antibodies originated from mice have shown robust performance in various immunoassays including western blotting, ELISA, immunofluorescence, and immunoprecipitation, there is still a […]
Sambit Majumdar, Amity University Kolkata HIV i.e. Human Immunodeficiency Viruses are two species of Lentivirus that infect humans. It is a virus that attacks the cells in the immune system. This virus destroys a type of white blood cell in the immune system called a T helper cell, also mention as a CD4 cell. This […]
Raddur Samaddar, Team bioXone The pandemic is going about its length and breadth, in India, we have 9,43,990 active cases as of 2nd October 2020. The serological activity and also the cross-reactivity of the diseases are a major concern at this moment. A commercial SARS-CoV-2 ELISA test was used for patients diagnosed as Dengue, Zika, […]
–Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata With the recent outbreak of the coronavirus and the rapid spread of the infection, the importance of quicker and more accurate tests are in demand. These tests should not just include the diagnosis of the coronavirus disease but also the identification of different strains of the virus for its detailed […]
