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 […]
Seshadri Dutta, NIIT University Introduction Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells are a type of genetically engineered T- cells, modified in order to produce an artificial T-cell receptor that can be further used for immunotherapy. These receptor proteins are engineered in a way that it gives the T-cells the ability to target a specific protein. Following […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University HIV has been present in our society for more than 30 years, from Central Africa to the USA and around the world. Viruses, as we can observe from 2021, are hard to combat! From the 1700s till today, have we progressed in society to include everyone without prejudice. From this crucial […]
Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida Oxford University researchers have announced that volunteers have received the first HIV (Human immunodeficiency) vaccination to find an effective cure for the virus. It has been 40 years since an effective HIV vaccine has been discovered. Trials are underway to develop an effective vaccine against HIV. The […]
Shayan Ahmed, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi It has been discovered that Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 9 (CDK9) is an important regulator of RNA Polymerase II transcription. As a regulator CDK9 works across the transcription unit at multiple locations. These include the transcriptional pause release before elongation by the action of positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb). […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University SARS-CoV-2 vaccination data has proven to lower the morbidity and mortality associated with COVID-19. However, this data severely lacks research among people suffering from immunodeficiency disorders, such as AIDS. In events of such opportunistic infections, where the human body is unable to produce the required immune response, the person is said […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata HIV research is at an inflection point, where various ways to deal to attack the infection are in or are moving toward clinical advancements. Ongoing development is giving scientist trust that a utilitarian HIV cure or even destruction of the infection is conceivable. Numerous papers throughout the long term asserted […]
CAMELIA BHATTACHARYYA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA HIV or Human Immunodeficiency virus was first discovered in the early 1980s. It later became an epidemic and it still scares people since there’s still no vaccine known to protect us against it. Does that mean that the scientists and researchers are not trying to even make one? Well no. […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University Kolkata A new study published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS), claims that a woman’s menopause stage is a key factor that can affect cognitive performance, and declines in memory may persist in the post-menopause period and, contrary to previous studies, shows that certain cognitive […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Lateral flow tests or tests which can detect particular biomolecules without the presence of expensive equipment have found a place in several medical grounds. A type of such test which is used to detect different types of viral DNA and proteins is the paper-based lateral flow test. These tests can […]
