Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University, Kolkata Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s are some of the most complicated diseases existing amongst modern humankind. These diseases are often complicated to understand. And since their causative agents are unknown in 80% of cases, their treatment is even more challenging. Primarily, the reasons associated with AD were mainly centered around the […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University Schistosomiasis is a disregarded public health tropical disease. The most serious disease is largely attributable to the grain produced by eggs and subsequent fibrosis in the host liver. This may lead to portal hypertension or even the death of the host. Host disease is most commonly observed, schistosome eggs produce M2-rich […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Autoimmune Hepatitis and Autoimmune sclerosing cholangitis Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a complex disease that occurs in patients of all ages present in both acute and chronic forms. Having no disease-specific test, it is a diagnosis of exclusion with one-third of patients suffering from advanced liver disease. Autoimmune sclerosing cholangitis (ASC) […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University For a very long time, researchers have been searching for ways to increase human life. In this quest, they have found one promising protein -mTOR. The finding of mTOR has given rise to a whole field in cellular biology that studies mTOR and its associated pathway. mTOR- […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College The good cholesterol has stood up to the prefix given to it as researchers claim it’s added advantages. In addition to the existing features of good cholesterol, it is now known to be associated with improved liver health. HDL is traditionally known for absorbing cholesterol and delivering it to the […]
Arka Acharyya, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara Researcher Jun Hee Lee and his team at the University of Michigan developed a new technique to visualize using high-throughput sequencing instead of a microscope. They named it technology Sequence-Scope technology or Seq-Scope. The development of light and electron microscopes has a profound role in the study […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University Kolkata On November 18, 2020, the Medica EasyRA benchtop clinical chemistry analyzer was distributed and serviced by Greensboro-based company, which provides healthcare officials and staff to keep a routine test on blood chemistries to include and check metabolic activity profiles, liver enzymes, proper kidney functioning glucose levels, and cardiovascular tests. These […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Hepatitis A is a vaccine-preventable, communicable disease caused by hepatitis A virus mainly associated with liver infection. It is generally spread through contaminated food and water mostly when handled by the infectious person. Symptoms vary from minimal illness to severe sickness leading to hospitalization which might endure for several months. […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata The process of regulation of glucose in our blood at a steady-state is known as glucose homeostasis. This regulation is very important as long-lasting disturbances in the blood sugar concentration can cause both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and other fatal diseases. To understand this complexity of blood […]
Aishila Kar,Amity University Kolkata An important poor prognostic factor of prostate cancer (PC), visceral metastasis (VM), is not commonly observed in castration sensitive progression but continuously seen after castration-resistant progression. Still, the site, timing of appearance, and incidence of VM in castration-resistant patients have not yet been fully explained. At Kanazawa University Hospital, demographic, surgical, […]
