Milanckona Das, Amity University Kolkata The desire to eliminate cancer permanently has remained an unattainable feat for scientists to this day. Although difficult to realize, it is a fact that our bodies continually deal with cancer on a minuscule level, daily. Immunotherapy is typically associated with cancer treatment, to effectively cause the cancellation of long-lasting […]
PRIASHA DUTTA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL One of the leading causes of mortality in the present-day world is cancer. Whenever we think of cancer treatment, the two words that are immediately synonymous are chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Although, due to limited efficacy based on the heterogeneity factor of cancer cells, there is a constant […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University Kolkata Although inhibition of T cell co-inhibitory receptors has brought about cancer therapy, mechanisms governing their expression on human T cells have not been explained. Type 1 interferon (IFN-I) regulates T cell immunity in viral infection, autoimmunity, cancer, and may enhance induction of T cell exhaustion in chronic viral infection. To […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Chikungunya fever is a self-remitting viral illness that is common in tropical countries like Africa and Southeast Asia caused by the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) (Genus- alphavirus, Family-Togaviridae), single-stranded positive-sense RNA enveloped virus, transmitted to humans by infected Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. International travel is one of the […]
Binayak Das, Team Bioxone A study conducted to unravel the potential of immunotherapy for patients affected by the covid-19 virus has announced that treatment with intravenous-immunoglobulin can potentially benefit covid-19 patients that are severely affected. Intravenous immunoglobulin or IVIG is the collection of IgG obtained from the blood serum of a large number of healthy […]
Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta Cancer Immunotherapy work by helping the immune system to function in an efficient manner to fight cancer cells. For the immune system to start its response, it must first be able to identify and differentiate between self-part of your own body and non-self-foreign/antigen. Cancer Immunotherapy is generally divided in two […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Immunotherapy, although being a formidable cancer treatment, produces durable responses for a few tumor types only. Lately, scientists have identified 182 genes that enable the cancer cells to evade death by the immune system. They carried out genome-wide CRISPR screens across a group of genetically varying mouse cancer cell lines, […]
