Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that torments mankind, caused by the parasite plasmodium. Researchers at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical research have understood how the body’s natural immunity can be manipulated to prevent malaria, bringing us one step closer to new potential therapy. The causative organism of this […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata World Malaria Day (WMD) is celebrated every year on the 25th of April and it is a global effort to control the spread of Malaria. This day began to be officially observed in the year 2007 by the 60th session of the World Health Assembly, which serves as the WHO’s […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata The toxin of the cone-like ocean snail (Conus nux) was used to manufacture medicines against intense fever and forms of infections in step with research from the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) School of Medication. The researchers as a team started from the likelihood that non-stick medications could be the way […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata Right after in the early months of the pandemic the US government has asked for a huge supply of hydroxychloroquine from the Indian government as the primary drug to be used in the treatment of SARS-CoV-19. Though after a few months both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine were considered to be an […]
Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata Among the five species of Plasmodium (P. falciparum, P. malariae, P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. knowlesi.) that cause malaria, P. falciparum can be fatal. On one hand, it can cause liver failure to coma, on the other hand, it is somewhat resistant to the malarial drugs. The thing that kept scientists […]
Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata Malaria is the deadliest vector-borne disease worldwide with an average of 228 million cases, and 405,000 deaths in 2018, mainly in the African Region (93%), and the South-East Asia Region (3.4%). In Laos, the malaria burden remains despite a significant reduction of cases during the last decade. In the condition […]
Soumya Sarathi Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Virologists were working on two areas of SARS-CoV-2 research at KU Leuven Rega Institute. In one line developing a vaccine that can prevent infection, and in another line of research, they are thriving in search of existing drugs by which the amount of virus can be reduced […]
