Neha khan, Jamia Millia Islamia The Human Genome Project had been started, aiming at curing deadly diseases and making healthcare facilities better. The human genome project (HGP) was launched in the year 1990 and was called a megaproject. It was a collaboration of International, government, and private companies’ effort to map and sequence the entire […]
Anuska Sen, Team BioXone Indeed, as said by American biotechnologist, Craig Venter, “Life is a DNA software system”. In simple terms, it can be said that DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) contains all the necessary instructions required for an organism to grow, divide, reproduce and even survive. It replicates to pass on genetic information and also provides […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata The pandemic, that is, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world all of a sudden, changing infection rates or rather increasing it every day without leaving the world to think of the ways to fight with the unknown enemy, the virus. This created a lot of panic at the beginning of […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University Kolkata Dementia is a pandemic in the ageing society, the likelihood doubles every five years. People with dementia in the UK, both those living with families or alone, have lost invaluable support. Family carers have lost respite opportunities because of COVID-19, causing them to feel abandoned. The burden of care was […]
Shinjini Bandopadhyay, Amity University Kolkata Stem cells possess two fundamental properties: diving repeatedly to make copies of themselves and differentiating to give other types of cells in the body. They can be divided into— human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) which are pluripotent and can give rise to every cell type in the fully formed body tissue-specific […]
