Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University, Noida The extent to which Covid vaccinations can protect people who have organ transplants is yet unknown. Transplantation doctors have long feared that the Covid vaccinations aren’t providing enough protection to patients undergoing transplants. Few studies have suggested that even after being completely vaccinated with mRNA vaccines, which are believed […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University The emergence of COVID-19 has brought some serious landmarks in the field of science. With little knowledge of the infecting virus and its variants, scientists have made giant leaps to protect our society and to stop the spread of the virus. These giant leaps have come in the form of the […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University The COVID-19 vaccine has been created as an emergency vaccine, based on several strategies, such as mRNA vaccine, inactivated virus vaccine, etc. The other vaccines having cleared the clinical trials have passed on to the mass population vaccination drives, without any reported risk factors, yet. However, Johnson and Johnson’s COVID 19 […]
Aqsa, Jamia Millia Islamia The Delta Strain: The world has witnessed various strains of the Covid-19 virus. These strains are the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta strains. These were previously known as the UK, South Africa, Brazilian, and Indian variants, respectively indicating the country of their origin. Among these, the delta variant is the deadliest mutation […]
Madhavi Bhatia,NIPER Guwahati SARS-covid-19 is now well-known as a severe acute respiratory syndrome that has affected all parts of the world. It has caused almost 3.9 million deaths worldwide resulting in a global pandemic. To curb the disease, various drugs are approved and used worldwide. Today, immunization is considered a safe and effective tool to […]
Anuska Sen, Team BioXone The International Clinical Trials Day is celebrated on the 20th of May each year to commemorate the enormous contributions of clinical trials and their participants to the various fields of science. The purpose of celebrating this day is to let people know about the importance of clinical trials and spread the […]
Souhrid Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata What is COVID-19? Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that may cause mild to severe respiratory disorders including death. The term ‘Corona’ means crown-like spikes on the surface of the virus. Some of the examples of coronavirus are Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Coronavirus became a household name, as the pandemic swept people off their feet, locking them in their houses, rendering them sick, leading to death on severe occasions. After months into the pandemic, in December 2020, the government of Israel approved the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination and proclaimed a mass immunization […]
Srilagna Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata Tata Medical and Diagnostics are in talks to team up with India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in order to carry out Moderna’s vaccine candidate in India. Tata Group’s healthcare venture is said to have started the initial discussion with Moderna Inc on partnership in launching its COVID-19 vaccine […]
Sayan Roy, Pondicherry University mRNA-1273 is a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, designed to fight against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is developed by a US-based pharmaceutical company- Moderna, in association with NIAID Vaccine Research Center. The mRNA-1273 vaccine encodes for the SARS-CoV-2 full-length spike glycoprotein trimer ‘S-2P’, but modified to incorporate two proline substitutions […]
