Varuni Ankolekar, Quartesian Genome sequencing has helped a cell to disclose much regarding the biological world. It’s a known fact that the short pieces of DNA, ‘Genes’ are the basic unit of inheritance. They are the reason for the development of different traits in organisms. The differences and similarities between organisms help to understand how […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College Natural selection has evidently preserved several specific sites in the human genome that allow an atypical 3-D conformation of the DNA which are referred to as G-quadruplexes (G4s). A new study demonstrates an increased occurrence and high stability of these not-so-usual G-quadruplexes if they are situated either in the sequences […]
-Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Tacugama in Sierra Leone is the sanctuary for western chimpanzees, a critically endangered subspecies. This sanctuary is the hub of environmental education, ecotourism, and community conservation projects. Ninety-nine chimps permanently reside at Tacugama today. Among them, many of them were rescued as babies from the illegal wildlife trade. […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Researchers in Japan and Cambodia have discovered coronaviruses which is similar to COVID-19. These are the first known relatives of SARS-Cov-2 to be found outside China and to be originated from horseshoe bats or Rhinolophus bats. It is still unknown if COVID-19 was transferred directly from bats to people or […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Thrips are small, polyphagous, and cosmopolitan insects that comprise the order Thysanoptera. Thysanoptera lies within the Paraneoptera, also commonly called the “hemipteroid assemblage” which also includes the orders Hemiptera, Psocoptera, and Phthiraptera. Among the over 7000 reported thrips species classified into nine families with a further five identified from […]
Anuska Sen, Team bioXone Superbugs are microbes which have gained resistance against anti-microbial substances such as antibiotics. These organisms have the potential to spread havoc destruction as methods to control them are relatively less known yet. These microorganisms can cause diseases like urinary tract infections, pneumonia, skin infections which cannot be easily treated by their […]
