Avani Dave, Jai Hind College Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a congenital condition in which intestinal neurons in the distal portion of the intestine are missing. This complicated hereditary disorder causes sickness by a combination of numerous abnormalities in the DNA. A unique mix of genetic changes, including uncommon coding variations, predisposing haplotypes, and Copy Number […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Out of all the vaccine-making companies, Bharat Biotech is the only one to locally develop a vaccine in India and result in large-scale manufacturing. The manufacturing of Covaxin had been started at Ankleshwar, Gujarat before which equipment efficacy was studied by carrying out engineering batches. After a 120-day timeline for manufacturing, testing, release, regulatory […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University The continuous changes in climate conditions are happening at a very rapid pace due to global warming. We are already observing the effects of climate change whether it is the heat waves in Canada or the recent flooding in Germany. The predicted results of the past are quickly coming true. Although […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University In the last few decades, humankind has gone through major healthcare upheavals causing a large amount of death and destruction. Epidemics, pandemics have come, some have passed with time but some have evolved to stay. And as we continue forward, scientists are already predicting the next pandemic to come soon. In […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University, Noida COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of turmoil all around the world. According to WHO nearly 164 million people were infected worldwide out of which 3.4 million people lost their lives worldwide. Now, as we know COVID 19 is a respiratory disease caused by SARS-C0V-2 which belongs to the […]
Nandini Pharasi, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Co-relation between life forms: Association between two different life forms that eat from the same bowl is known as commensalism. Commensalism is a relationship between species in which one benefits while the other is neither affected nor harmed. These bacteria do not harm them but depend on them […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College Breast cancer gene BRCA1 has marked its presence as a protein mostly known for being an active contributor in the hereditary associated breast cancer. Apart from being the villain, BRCA1 also plays an indispensable role in the cellular machinery that works towards repairing the double-strand DNA breakage. Recently, researchers from […]
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 […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Viromics or viral metagenomics techniques have led to the characterization of many new plant viruses. This has been broadening our understanding of the evolution and ecology of plant viruses in nature. Generally, the knowledge regarding citrus viruses has been highly inclined towards virus pathology in cultivated orchards. Recently, scientists have […]
Madhavi Bhatia, NIPER Guwahati SARS-CoV-19, well known as a severe acute respiratory syndrome that affects mainly the respiratory system of humans has become a global pandemic. Various vaccines have been approved worldwide to curb the disease. In Australia, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine is approved. Both these vaccines are a type of encapsulated mRNA vaccine, […]
