Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University, Kolkata Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s are some of the most complicated diseases existing amongst modern humankind. These diseases are often complicated to understand. And since their causative agents are unknown in 80% of cases, their treatment is even more challenging. Primarily, the reasons associated with AD were mainly centered around the […]
Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata What is Parkinson’s disease? Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects neurons (dopamine-producing) of substantia nigra. Symptoms of this disease develop slowly over the years and vary from person to person. The cause of Parkinson’s disease is not well known which makes it difficult to cure. However, medications and […]
Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University, Kolkata Scientists at the University of Basel reported two newly discovered glial cells that can revolutionize our understanding of brain functions. The human brain is very complex and the way it functions is even more complicated. So far, we don’t even know exactly how much we have an understanding of the […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Many people have a wrong conception that since DNA damage can occur any time at any genomic site of a neuron, DNA repairs take place throughout the genome arbitrarily. Salk scientists have proved this view to be invalid saying that genomic sites are benefitted. Genomic sites are also known as […]
