Avani Dave, Jai Hind College Dinoflagellates can be best described as a class of single-celled organisms forming a major constituent of the marine eukaryotes ecosystem that plays an essential role in aquatic primary production. That being said, several dinoflagellates are notorious for their harmful algal bloom (HAB) species, releasing high levels of marine toxins which […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College Background Based on historical evidence, the epidemics of plant diseases have been quite destructive and continue to scar global well-being. Most of these epidemics came into existence due to international transactions and merchandising of plant materials which eventually takes the face of species declination. Hymenoscyphus fraxineus is an invasive fungus […]
Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida A well-documented evolutionary driving phenomenon has been found in prokaryotes and eukaryotes known as HGT (Horizontal gene transfer), but its impact has remained elusive on the plant kingdom. HGT between a plant and insect in which the transferred genetic material performs a useful function, has been shown in […]
Richa Prakash, Central University of Punjab Introduction With the development in science and technology, we got a basic idea of the nutritional needs of human beings leading to the minimization of malnutrition and health conditions resulting from nutritional deficiency. This led to an approach known as “one-size-fits-all”, and also platforms like MyPlate and Food Guide […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Secondary Metabolites as a Natural Defense System in Microbes: All living beings inherit a natural defence system for ascertaining their survival. Microorganisms are mostly dependent upon the synthesized natural products that serve as a defence system against threats posed by the environment. This enables them to fight against other microorganisms. […]
Aqsa, Jamia Millia Islamia A nucleosome is a DNA segment of 147-bp coiled around a histone octamer. Each histone octamer is made up of two copies of each of the histone proteins H2A, H2B, H3, and H4. It is the fundamental subunit of chromatin. Although it seems that the nucleosome has its significance only in […]
Varuni Ankolekar, Clinical Data Manager Traditionally, the discovery of drugs was done by recognizing the active ingredients from traditional remedies or unexpectedly. Later, Scientists discovered that the interaction of specific chemicals in the drug with biological molecules of the human body serves the purpose of the drug. Later, Chemical pharmacological approaches were made to identify […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Researchers, for the first time, have been successfully able to sequence the entire genome from the skull of PeşteraMuierii 1. She is a woman who lived about 35,000 years ago in today’s Romania. Muierii woman is somehow related to Europeans, though she is not a direct ancestor. This study […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Just a few months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, scientists were able to sequence the full genome of the SARS-CoV-2virus that had caused the infection. Most of its genes were already known then but the full complement of protein-coding genes remained unresolved. After performing an extensive comparative study, researchers […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata CRISPR- Cas 9 gene-editing system, we all have heard of that isn’t it? A giant in Gene editing. Well here’s the thing- There is something even more interesting than that. Retrons: A group of researchers at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School have created a new gene-editing tool called Retron […]
