Sagnik Nag, Amity University, Kolkata World Sickle Cell Awareness Day is celebrated on June 19 every year to heighten awareness about the genetic disorder Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). The disease is naturally found in people from all over Africa, Southern America, Central America, Saudi Arabia, India, Northern Turkey, and in a few pockets of Italy. […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Meier-Gorlin syndrome, or MGS, is a genetic disorder that causes dwarfism, small ears, a small brain, missing patella and other skeletal abnormalities. In severe cases, MGS results in miscarriages and stillbirths. Researchers tried to study this recessive, autosomal disorder in a unique way, i.e, by placing mutant human genes […]
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 […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Down syndrome (DS), also known as trisomy 21 is the most persistent aneuploidy characterized by a genetic disorder caused due to the triplication of the 21st human chromosome. This syndrome is particularly associated with the development of congenital heart disease, sleep apnoea, obesity, diabetes, premature ageing, and higher sensitivity to […]
Shinjini Bandopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata Stem cells possess two fundamental properties: diving repeatedly to make copies of themselves and differentiating to give other types of cells in the body. They can be divided into— human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) which are pluripotent and can give rise to every cell type in the fully formed body tissue-specific […]
-Sanket Roy, Amity University Kolkata Our life forms and progress depends upon the central dogma of life. DNA gets transcripted to RNA and RNA further translates Protein. The genetic code initiates and controls the growth and physiology of any cell. Our body is made up of a community of individual cells having specific activities to […]
