Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University, Kolkata Biomedical engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently developed a biocompatible adhesive inspired from barnacle glue. Most of the time, wound healing and tissue repair are very complicated processes and the existing methodologies to seal a wound or torn tissue are time consuming, complex and are at risk of […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University, Kolkata During fertilisation, when a sperm cell fuses with an egg cell or oocyte from the female it forms a zygote. But there’s an interesting fact to it, oocytes are the largest cell produced by most organisms. In fact in humans, oocytes are comparatively larger than normal body cells. The growth […]
Shrayana Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Recently researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have discovered a way to mark individual messenger RNA molecules inside a tissue sample using a new methodology for expanding tissue and then sequencing the RNA. This approach provides a unique snapshot of the genes that are expressed in various parts of […]
Koustav Maiti, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara A normal cell always has the characteristics of regulated cell division, proliferation and lastly undergoes apoptosis (programmed cell death). But when the cell does not have control over its division, it causes a tumor. When the neoplastic cells are clustered together but don’t spread anywhere else within […]
DEEPON CHAKRABORTY, UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA Interpretation of a large number of genetic variants identified from sequencing is one of the breakthroughs of clinical genetics. It is also termed as genetic screening. The main challenge is the identification of the effect of amino acid substituting missense variation on protein structure and function. Its several applications are […]
