Debarati Basu, Makaut WB Vaccines derived from mRNA have greater versatility and efficacy for preventing Covid-19 infections. An effective alternative is DNA vaccines. It is used as it can induce humoral and cellular immune responses in animal models. They can also be utilized in human trials. The efficacy and immunogenicity of DNA-based vaccines were tested. […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University, Noida Rheumatoid arthritis patients may be afraid that the COVID-19 vaccination will have negative side effects, aggravating their disease. Some people have even said that they do not believe it is safe for them to get the vaccine. That, however, is not the case. According to specialists, the chances of […]
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 […]
Madhavi Bhatia, NIPER Guwahati SARS-CoV-19, well known as a severe acute respiratory syndrome that affects mainly the respiratory system of humans has become a global pandemic. Various vaccines have been approved worldwide to curb the disease. In Australia, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine is approved. Both these vaccines are a type of encapsulated mRNA vaccine, […]
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 […]
Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is currently raging across our country, and in its most lethal form by far. While scientists are still carrying out extensive research for a permanent one-size-fits-all cure, there are other forms of treatment and prevention strategies. They include vaccine development, designing of macromolecular neutralizing antibodies, and […]
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 […]
Shagufta Hasan, Amity University Catalytic RNA, Ribozymes, found in the ribosomes form polypeptide chains by linking amino acids together. The RNA enzyme catalyzes a chemical reaction in a similar way to that of protein enzymes. They also participate in processes like RNA splicing, viral replication etc. Although they have attracted a great deal of research […]
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 […]
Sayan Roy, M.Sc. Biotechnology, Pondicherry University tRNAs are the intricate biological molecules involved in the flow of genetic information from DNA to protein by reading codons in mRNA. Besides tRNA and mRNA, several non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been discovered by scientists over the past few decades that include long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and small non-coding […]
