Srabani Roy Chowdhury, MAKAUT, WB Introduction Plant roots are associated with a diverse community of microorganisms. These communities are collectively known as root microbiome. The communities contain microorganisms that are both helpful as well as harmful for the plant, in terms of affecting its physiological functioning. Mycorrhizal and mycoparasitic fungi as well as bacteria that […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College Inborn errors of immunity (IEI) are a group of approximately 400 monogenic diseases characterized by recurring, severe, or uncommon infections, as well as autoimmunity and autoinflammation. The synthesis of the clinical phenotype, the findings of immunological testing, and the results of genetic testing have identified the main pathogenic mutations required […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow The human body encounters different types of pathogenic microbes and stressful events that can cause infection and convert normal cells into tumour cells. Our immune system has the ability to recognize and potentially eradicate such tumorous cells or any other cells working aberrantly. Mainly it’s the killer lymphocytes that […]
Monika R, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Geminiviruses are plant viruses that cause economically important plant diseases worldwide. These viruses are proliferating globally and have attracted considerable scientific interest during the past 30 years. These viruses have circular ssDNA genomes and initiate infection with the discharge of viral ssDNA into the nucleus of the host, […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College A recent study conducted by Satveer Mahil et al., showcased in the current year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) and published in The Lancet Rheumatology, demonstrates that it is not the response of T-cell but that of the antibody to the first jab of the Pfizer […]
Anjali Kumari, IILM College of Engineering and Technology Longer gap (up to 45 weeks) between the Covid-19 vaccines may increase the immune response. According to a new study from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, it has been stated that a gap of up to 45 weeks between the first and second doses […]
Deivayanai. V.C , Rajalakshmi Engineering College Many countries across the globe have huge vaccine-producing factories for making vaccine shots. Certain vaccines are being made where influenza viruses are injected into chicken eggs. These eggs produce a high copy of the viruses. Production workers then extract the viruses from the egg, reduce the virulence or kill them […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University The risk of COVID19 infection is exceeded in multiple myeloma patients. Vaccine for the general population with BNT162b2 mRNA COVID19 (BNT162b2) provides effective protection against COVID19. However, their efficacy on patients with multiple myeloma may be adversely affected by and not yet assessed due to factors related to disease and therapy. […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University A recently published new study states that both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine immune system reactions have proved to offer long-lasting protection against COVID-19. mRNA vaccines have created more and better germinal centre B cell responses, thus indicating that the immunity system would be much more impactful and offer long-lasting […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Scientists have come over a class of drugs utilized in the treatment of breast and ovarian cancer which might be effective in other types of diseases with inadequate treatment alternatives. These are called PARP inhibitors which have the potential to kill cancer cells carrying a defect in the Polybromo 1(PBRM1) […]
