Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata When dealing with treatments relating to human health, we need to take care of two things: i.) the cure should be developed on the basis of all criteria including the majority of the population, and ii.) side-effects should be absent or negligible. Any drug or vaccine to be identified safe, […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata The nationwide “Innovate2BeatCOVID” Grand Challenge has been won by three innovative ‘Ventilators and other respiratory Solutions’. This event was conducted by Marico innovation Foundation (MIF) and has awarded 85 lakhs in grants to the winners. These devices, made in India are affordable, disruptive and easily accessible. The use of best-in-class […]
RUCHITA KARMAKAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) agreed a dry swab-direct RT-PCR testing method for the COVID-19 virus which is presently developed by CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB). This new method of dry swab-direct test aimed at ascending the test by atleast two to three folds with no […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata The coronavirus, or the virus which has resulted in the whole world to shutdown, the ecosystem to change and us to depend completely on technology (to manage the economic conditions) and their immunity (since its more or less the survival of the fittest) first started its game in Wuhan, China. […]
Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata ICMR officials said on Tuesday that The Drugs Controller General of India has given authorization for conducting Phase-1 human clinical trial for an “antisera” that was developed by injecting inactivated SARS-CoV-2 in horses and can be a treatment for COVID-19. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in alliance with a Hyderabad-based vaccine maker […]
– Sagnik Nag, Amity University Kolkata The recent pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 was enough to destabilize the global economy and giving a psycho-social upshot throughout the globe that China came up with another lethal cat que virus (CQV). According to a novel scientific study conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), antibodies for cat […]
-Binayak Das, Team bioXone A team of scientists claims that Indians should be grateful to their genetics, which according to their study is a critical factor in having a comparatively lesser number of deaths from COVID-19 in their populations. They studied the complete DNA data of the ACE2 gene in the X chromosomes from different […]
–Shrayana Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata A statement by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) earlier stated that there was a comparatively higher risk of asymptomatic people being infected by COVID, which raised the number of people screened for COVID to a high level. Thousands of asymptomatic people flooded testing centers, resulting in […]
–Shristi Sharma, Team bioXone The GATE portal has been made LIVE on 12th of September,2020 two days before the original date (14th September, 2020). Closing date for applicants is 30th November,2020. Gather all your requirements as listed below: Personal information (name, date of birth, personal mobile number, parents’ name, parents’ mobile number, etc.). Please note […]
–Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata With the horror with which Covid-19 is spreading presently, the story of U.S President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the Coronavirus was either engineered intentionally or was the result of a laboratory accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, has brought forward terror in the minds of people. According […]
