Anuska Sen, Team BioXone The World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates World Malaria Day on April 25 every year to bring together people all around the globe to bring up new solutions to reach a malaria-free world. Cause of Malaria: Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease, the causative agent of which is a parasite of the Plasmodium […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University, Noida The SAGA complex, which includes the histone acetyltransferase GCN5 and serves as a general transcription co-activator in global gene regulation, is evolutionarily conserved from yeast to humans. In a study conducted by Jun Miao along with other researchers, Plasmodium falciparum has a divergent GCN5 complex that includes two plant […]
Srabani Roy Chowdhury (MAKAUT, WB) Despite all the global malaria control measures, more than a 200million malaria cases are seen, out of which 0.5million people have succumbed to death. The attempts for new drugs have led to the identification of various chemical compounds that can destroy the parasites in the different stages of their life […]
Shayan Ahmed, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi Pediatric Severe Malaria: Malaria continues to be a major source of illness and mortality in children, with an estimated 272,000 deaths in children under the age of five worldwide in 2018. Cerebral Malaria (CM) and Severe Malarial Anaemia (SMA) are two frequent symptoms of pediatric Severe Malaria (SM) in […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University Malaria is a term we are all familiar with. It has been on earth since the ancient history of human civilization. From 2700 BC in China to as far as the sixteenth century BC in Hindu mythology. Poor public health conditions, intense fever, and enlarged spleens were identified in early cases […]
Avani Dave, Jai Hind College The fidelity of disease model predictions is based on precisely describing the incorporated processes and parameters. Several different models exist and help in describing the dynamics observed in the host during malaria infection. That being said, there is insufficient clinical data that can be utilized for the quantitative validation and […]
Aayushi Gaur; U.I.E.T, Kurukshetra University CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, accompanying it ‘Cas’, an acronym for CRISPR-associated protein. Cas can be readily modified to target particular portions of DNA and to turn genes on/off without changing their sequence. It is a form of genome editing technology that is utilized to make […]
Mustafa Vora, DY Patil University Navi Mumbai Malaria and the global problem it causes: Malaria is one of the most infectious diseases that are a threat to the human race. The mode of transmission is from mosquito to humans by a parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. The infection is caused because the sporozoite enters the bloodstream of […]
Akash Singh, Banaras Hindu University Malaria claimed the lives of an estimated 409,000 people worldwide in 2019. The most vulnerable population to malaria is children under the age of five. They were responsible for 67% of all malaria deaths globally in 2019. Caused by Plasmodium parasites, which are single-celled parasitic organisms that cannot survive outside […]
Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University, Kolkata Malaria is not something unknown to us. Occurring when an infected female Anopheles mosquito bites a person, it accounts for over 400,000 deaths every year. The onset occurs when the parasite Plasmodium enters the human bloodstream and infects the liver cells and finally, the red blood cells. While vaccines are […]
