Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata What is Parkinson’s disease? Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects neurons (dopamine-producing) of substantia nigra. Symptoms of this disease develop slowly over the years and vary from person to person. The cause of Parkinson’s disease is not well known which makes it difficult to cure. However, medications and […]
Sarah Khatkhatay, SK Somaiya Vidhyadhar From protection against STDs to family planning, contraceptives play an important role. Elements of safety, effectiveness, availability, and accessibility need to be considered by a woman or man at any point of their lifetimes when choosing the most appropriate contraceptive. Women have several choices or options for long-lasting and reversible […]
Aqsa, Jamia Millia Islamia A nucleosome is a DNA segment of 147-bp coiled around a histone octamer. Each histone octamer is made up of two copies of each of the histone proteins H2A, H2B, H3, and H4. It is the fundamental subunit of chromatin. Although it seems that the nucleosome has its significance only in […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Taste is one of our most important senses. Without it, we would never know the pleasure of eating ice cream on a hot summer afternoon and drinking our favorite tea while reading a Jane Austin classic. Memory retrieval is the basic ability of organisms to make use of acquired and […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Protein replacement therapy is a medical treatment that supplements or replaces a protein in a patient in whom this is absent or deficient. These are a very powerful class of drugs and are highly selective and specific in their targets. This makes them a very useful tool in modern science. […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta Since the dawn of a global pandemic this year, infectious diseases have been a popular topic of discussion and research. With infectious diseases being a threat to the global economy and public health, and with ARBs or antimicrobial resistance bacteria on the rise, the world is in need of progress […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Researchers at Rockefeller University had found a gene having vitality for short-term memory despite being functional in that part of the brain which has no association with memory. Previous studies on short-term memory say that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) generally comprises of all the neural activity, but recent model studies […]
