Jahnavee Palsodkar, Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India Battling pathogens for healthy fruits Citrus canker is a pathogenic disease that impacts citrus plants, inducing lesions on various plant organs such as leaves and fruits. This severely diminishes the viability and economic value of the plant. Efforts to cultivate a […]
Shubham Koirala, alumnus at Kathmandu University, Nepal HIV/AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first proclaimed when opportunistic infections and rare malignancies were seen among homosexual men in 1981. It is endorsed that AIDS is caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 (HIV-1) which is also widely known as Lentivirus (belongs to the Retrovirus family). HIV is […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata In this current spread of outbreaks, specifically with the emergence of more transmissible variants, frequent rapid testing for COVID-19 is a vital requirement. For that purpose, qRT-PCR (quantitative reverse-transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction), the gold standard COVID-19 diagnostic test, is employed these days. This method generally entails specialized equipment, a centralized laboratory facility, […]
Monika Raman, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore The ability to efficiently and dynamically modify the information contained in genomes would allow for tools to investigate cell biology and govern cell phenotypes effectively. Present DNA writing platforms that are recombineering-mediated DNA writing platforms in bacteria are only available for particular laboratory settings and are not available […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata What is Antibiotic resistance (AR)? Antibiotic resistance (AR) is the biological phenomenon that occurs when germs like bacteria become resistant to an antibiotic and develop an ability to defeat the drugs that are designed to kill the bacteria. That means the bacteria continue to grow instead of getting killed by the […]
Anish Pyne, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur With the growing prowess of personalized medicines and molecular drugs, a group of methods took the central stage allowing the introduction of highly specific changes within the genome by either adding or deleting, or substituting any desired sequence, thus modifying the natural characteristics of a gene. And this […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata CRISPR-CAS9 a huge discovery in the biomedical field which guarantees curing various genetic disorders has been used and a topic of research among various scientists. Due to this the scientists discovering CRISPR-CAS9 were awarded the Nobel Prize of Chemistry, 2020. Utilizing this concept a group of scientists tried to treat […]
Sashreek Ganguli, Amity University Kolkata Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a set of blood disorders inherited from parents. It is a genetic disorder caused due to A-to-T base mutation within codon 6 of the HBB/Beta-globin gene (which is a part of haemoglobin A/ HgbA) responsible for the glutamic acid to valine substitution. It affects the […]
