CAMELIA BHATTACHARYYA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA HIV or Human Immunodeficiency virus was first discovered in the early 1980s. It later became an epidemic and it still scares people since there’s still no vaccine known to protect us against it. Does that mean that the scientists and researchers are not trying to even make one? Well no. […]
Ankita Chattopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata Previously, COVID19 was associated with the onset of numerous symptoms that ranged from mild to moderate severity, starting from cough and fever to complete loss of movement in some cases. Unusual numbers of people from all over the world started showing different sorts of symptoms with different severities, at some […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata A genomic study of skin cells shows that there is a wide range of age-independent mutations in the normal number of somatic mutations that arise from exposure to UV light. The human skin is constantly subjected to damage of DNA due to the environment, which leads to the accumulation of […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata Just as the world was waiting with hope for the vaccine to start off a healthier 2021, UK has cautioned to take necessary precautionary measures against a new contagious COVID-19 mutant. Scientists have stated that all viruses mutate as it’s in their nature to mutate, as the human body gets more […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Meier-Gorlin syndrome, or MGS, is a genetic disorder that causes dwarfism, small ears, a small brain, missing patella and other skeletal abnormalities. In severe cases, MGS results in miscarriages and stillbirths. Researchers tried to study this recessive, autosomal disorder in a unique way, i.e, by placing mutant human genes […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Who soared the empty skies 360 million years ago? Not the Pterosaurs. Not the Birds. Definitely not the Bats. They were the Insects. They flew before anything else did. The origin of wings among these tiny arthropods was however an enigma, it bugged the Scientists for over a Century. There […]
PRAGYA SANTRA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Sickle cell anaemia is an autosomal red blood cell disorder where the shape of the RBCs become distorted and crescent sickle-shaped. Such structural modifications to the RBCs disables them if their ability to transfer oxygen to the whole body. Deoxygenated Sickle cells have an affinity to bind mutually forming polymers. […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata Genes and the neural network together regulate animal sleep. The importance of quality and restful sleep has been dealt with innumerable times before. It was more than 2000 years ago that Greek physician Hippocrates wrote, “Disease exists if either sleep or watchfulness be excessive.” However, our sleep and sleeping habits […]
RUCHITA KARMAKAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA The unmatched sequencing efforts have as of October 2020, produced almost nearly 200,000 genomes of acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causing havoc in the world, named as Covid-19. Understanding the drift in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 is equally supreme in controlling this global pandemic. The major challenge lies in […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Minks are dark-coloured and carnivorous mammals. Denmark has always been Europe’s largest producer and exporter of mink furs. So, Why is Denmark planning to kill its mink population? Recently, about 214 human COVID-19 cases in Denmark are related to minks. A mink-variant mutation in the spike protein of the […]
