Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata The current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is caused by the beta coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Besides the most prevalent consequences of respiratory failure, cardiac involvement (heart diseases caused due to SARS-CoV-2 infection in the heart tissue) is a common outcome that is observed in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. […]
Ananya Ghosal, MAKAUT (WB) Chemotherapy is used to treat cancer patients. During the process of chemotherapy, the effects of the chemotherapeutic agent are to reduce or kill the cancer cells but besides cancer cells, other cell types are also affected which includes cycling blood cells. This process puts the hematopoietic system under pressure and sends […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Consuming salt or adding salt to a meal seems normal to everyone, right? But no, don’t add that extra pinch of salt! We already know that salt can raise blood pressure, but did you know that too much salt can severely disrupt the energy balance in immune cells which […]
Koustav Maiti, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara Cancer can be defined by two properties: 1. They reproduce cells by the violation of normal cell growth and division, and 2. They occupy other regions conserved for other normal cells by the properties of invasion and metastasis. Metastasis is the most important character of cancer cells […]
-Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata Just like the military is important for our protection from enemies, similarly, the organ systems in our body, also need protection. The frontline warriors of most of our organ systems are the immune cells that are present in our circulation. The exception is the brain. In a recent study conducted […]
Diya Adhikary, Amity University Kolkata DISCOVERY: During the Roman Empire, in the 1st Century AD, Psoriasis was described by famous encyclopedist A. Cornelius Celsus as “Impetigo” (meaning: impetigo that appears on the skin of the nails and extremities). Even though Galen, a Greek physician is considered to have been the first to have coined the […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata CAR T cells are genetically modified immune cells that have been engineered to recognize and invade tumor cells. The immune T cells are collected and modified in the laboratory to generate finely-tuned chimeric antigen receptor, which identifies a distinctive protein on the surface of the patient’s cancer cells. The modified […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata The utilization of antibodies to battle human illness goes back to the 1890s and it is in practice even today. The blood plasma of patients who have recovered from COVID-19 contains antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus which is called plasma therapy and used as a treatment for people with coronavirus […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Many a time, a heart transplant is the only hope of survival for patients with any cardiac problems when every other surgery fails. For this, they have to wait for too long. Cardiac xenotransplantation has been a target of scientists globally for years, and in one year, pig hearts might […]
