Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Who soared the empty skies 360 million years ago? Not the Pterosaurs. Not the Birds. Definitely not the Bats. They were the Insects. They flew before anything else did. The origin of wings among these tiny arthropods was however an enigma, it bugged the Scientists for over a Century. There […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata Genes and the neural network together regulate animal sleep. The importance of quality and restful sleep has been dealt with innumerable times before. It was more than 2000 years ago that Greek physician Hippocrates wrote, “Disease exists if either sleep or watchfulness be excessive.” However, our sleep and sleeping habits […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Microbial Ecology known as environmental microbiology is the study of microorganisms’ relationship with each other as well as their environment. The main goal of researchers in this department is to capture the maximum amount of information from all organisms that are present in a given sample. Traditionally DNA-based protocols are […]
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 […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Autosomal Recessive Gene Disorders are the type of Genetic Disorders that are expressed only when two mutant copies of a gene are present in the organism. Kyphoscoliotic Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (kEDS) is an example of one such disorder that affects the connective tissues of a person’s body. This disorder was not […]
PRAGYA SANTRA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Loss of genomic stability prejudice genomic consistency, genetic makeup, and promote malignancies. Pathological mutations of DNA repair genes result in ovarian-cancer (OvCa). The elevation of damage burden proportionates to the elevated estrogen level, inducing DNA lesions that are dependent on the expression of hormone-receptors in G1, G2, and S phase. […]
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 […]
PRAGYA SANTRA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA A huge part of the population worldwide has been affected due to the deadly attack of the COVID19. As per close observations and studies, it is noted that the disease becomes fatal for few and mild for others. The spread of COVID-19 is a paradox of what causes the virus […]
Binayak Das, Team BioXone The amount of nitrogen in the soil that is available for a plant, largely decides how healthy the growth of that plant will be. This parameter becomes quite relevant when the plants we’re talking about are agriculturally valuable. Excessive presence of nitrogen from over-application of nitrogen fertilizers has turned out to […]
