Debarati Basu, Makaut WB Benjamin List of Germany and David W.C. MacMillan of the United States were honoured jointly with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021. They were awarded for their development of asymmetric organocatalysis. Their findings were an environmentally safer, cleaner, cheaper, and more effective method to build molecules. This method is applicable in […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata In this current spread of outbreaks, specifically with the emergence of more transmissible variants, frequent rapid testing for COVID-19 is a vital requirement. For that purpose, qRT-PCR (quantitative reverse-transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction), the gold standard COVID-19 diagnostic test, is employed these days. This method generally entails specialized equipment, a centralized laboratory facility, […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata The “US-UK” triad, Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice, have been awarded jointly, the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. Scientists will share the prestigious Nobel prize sum of 10 million Swedish kronor (about $1.1 million, 950,000 euros). Hepatitis […]
