Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow CRISPR-Cas9 technology is recently being extensively applied in human diseases research in study and effective treatment. Along with its huge therapeutic potential, the technique is also being explored in various other areas where gene editing could improve breeds and promote desirable traits. Traditional approaches to selective breeding in the […]
Aayushi Gaur; U.I.E.T, Kurukshetra University CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, accompanying it ‘Cas’, an acronym for CRISPR-associated protein. Cas can be readily modified to target particular portions of DNA and to turn genes on/off without changing their sequence. It is a form of genome editing technology that is utilized to make […]
Souhrid Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata UNDERSTADING BIOLOGICAL WARFARE Biological warfare is a primitive concept that has been in use for nearly 2000 years. Evidence for the deliberate use of microorganisms and toxins as bioweapons are there throughout history. Biological warfare is the use of biological toxins or infectious pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and […]
Akash Singh, Banaras Hindu University We’ve discovered the structure of DNA, the blueprint for life, constructed computers to read it, and mastered the power to rewrite it in the last 70 years. With real-time genomic sequencing and new-generation mRNA vaccinations, gene technologies have allowed us to track and combat COVID-19 faster than any other outbreak […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata CRISPR- Cas 9 gene-editing system, we all have heard of that isn’t it? A giant in Gene editing. Well here’s the thing- There is something even more interesting than that. Retrons: A group of researchers at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School have created a new gene-editing tool called Retron […]
-Shristi Sharma, Team bioXone NII Lifescience SRF Job – MSc Senior Research Fellow Post. Recruitment of Life Sciences candidates at NII. Senior Research Fellow Post. Research Job Openings at NII. Check out the details given below: NII Vacancy Details Job Name: Senior Research Fellow (Project) No. of Posts: 01 Title of Project: “Gene editing of […]
PRAGYA SANTRA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Sickle cell anaemia is an autosomal red blood cell disorder where the shape of the RBCs become distorted and crescent sickle-shaped. Such structural modifications to the RBCs disables them if their ability to transfer oxygen to the whole body. Deoxygenated Sickle cells have an affinity to bind mutually forming polymers. […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. Quite a mouthful isn’t it? In the name itself is hidden, its definition. It is composed of short identical palindromic DNA segments that are separated with spacer DNA, which are all unique. There are also a number of genes associated with […]
Shrayana Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata According to a new study by UC San Francisco scientists, gene editing for the generation of different treatments and the study of disease and normal function in humans and other organisms may develop more rapidly with a new tool for cutting larger pieces of DNA out of the genome of […]
PRAGYA SANTRA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Mutation and copy number variants (CNV) are a great risk-factor for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), schizophrenia (SZ), and Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disorder (ADHD). But its association with functional brain connectivity (FC) is unknown. FC-changes may not surely represent an intermediate brain phenotype but a secondary impact of psychiatric illnesses. Individuals with a high […]
