Madhavi Bhatia, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Guwahati Plastic pollution causes harm to humans, plants, and animals through the ingestion of toxic pollutants. It takes almost hundreds to thousands of years for the plastic to degrade resulting in long-lasting environmental damage. Plastic debris has now become the most ubiquitous and long-lasting pressure on […]
Subhajit Nan, Amity University, Kolkata. Researchers in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States have recently made the world’s first fibre computer- a fibre with digital capabilities, which can sense, store, analyse and infer activity after being sewn into a shirt, thereby paving the path for the creation of the first-ever digital […]
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 […]
Subhajit Nan, Amity University, Kolkata Scientists created modified virus-resistant bacteria and made synthetic polymers from synthetic building blocks, making them immune to viral attack. They also found the synthetic genome made the bacteria fully proof against infection by viruses. Using the natural protein-making processes of the cell The goal was to utilize the newly available […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata Synthetic plastics have become an interminable hazard to the environment since the beginning of their use. Synthetic plastics contain such polymers which on interaction with water, generate toxic chemicals that are discharged into the surrounding environment. Although biodegradable products like sugarcane have been utilized for producing an alternative, scientists are […]
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 […]
