Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow A lot of recent approaches to targeting different diseases have been at the transcriptional level where the root cause could be analyzed and/or eliminated. Obesity is one such condition that is being approached through miRNA mimicking as a therapeutic tool in a recent study published in the Molecular Therapy […]
Sumedha Guha, Techno India University Uncontrolled cell growth and division unleashed by an alteration (known as ‘mutation’) in the genetic circuits that regulate the cell cycle in a normal cell lead to cancer. In women, cervical cancer is the 2nd most commonly occurring cancer with more than 500,000 cases reported worldwide and 200,000 deaths. Cervical […]
Ayushman Kumar Banerjee With over 43 million COVID-19 cases having surfaced and more than 1.1 million deaths, researchers are relentlessly working round the clock to develop vaccines against the virus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19. This has led to a race for a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, and in this race, Moderna has devised […]
-Binayak Das, Team bioXone The formation of a cleft-palate or cleft-lip in an individual is due to the combined contributions of both genetic and environmental factors. Years of research have now revealed that differential expressions caused due to epigenetic factors like DNA methylation and histone modifications can help us determine the exact genes responsible for […]
