Avani Dave, Jai Hind College Inborn errors of immunity (IEI) are a group of approximately 400 monogenic diseases characterized by recurring, severe, or uncommon infections, as well as autoimmunity and autoinflammation. The synthesis of the clinical phenotype, the findings of immunological testing, and the results of genetic testing have identified the main pathogenic mutations required […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University Rice is one of the most popular staple crops with about half of the world population consuming it every day. Rice unfortunately is sensitive to salt especially the seedling and reproductive stage as compared to other developmental stages. Global rice production is threatened due to reduced yield […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata What is a BRAF inhibitor and what is its role? BRAF is a gene that is present on chromosome 7q34. It encodes a protein that has the ability to regulate the MAP kinase/ERKs-signaling pathway. These pathways have a crucial role in regulating cell division, differentiation, and the growth and proliferation of […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University To grow, cells have to divide. A single cell divides into two, and then four, and so on. Finally, we turn into a body with trillions of cells. Each cell undergoes differentiation to get its specialized function. From this, it might be quite clear how essential cell […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata One of the main functions a cell performs is the synthesis of proteins. This is done with the help of a set of factors called “transcription factors”. A team of researchers from Uppasala University have succeeded in studying transcription factors that are several billion years old. The studies helped them […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Researchers at Stalk and Scripps Research Institute have discovered the mystery behind how Carnivorous plants sense and trap their prey. Ever since we were in middle school we have learned that plants like Venus flytrap and Sundew are sensitive to touch, which helps them to sense and trap their prey. […]
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 […]
Arka Acharyya, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara Proteomics is an important topic in basic biology to advance Biotechnology, bioinformatics to epidemiology. It is a crucial link between genomics and metabolomics. So, Protein fingerprinting is too essential for modern biotechnology. Conventionally fingerprinting of proteins is done by mass spectroscopy. But, it is both a time-consuming […]
Shreemoyee Mitra, Amity University Kolkata Role of Solvent tolerance in biofuel production and its trend in the species- Microorganisms have been considered as a boon that shapes all biological sciences. Microorganisms form an integral part of our everyday lives as they are not only present around us but also within us, some also involved in […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata There has been a rapid development in the field of meta-omics in the past decade thereby producing an unprecedented amount of data. Methods such as Next Generation Sequencing produce a large amount of data that needs to be interpreted to understand the role of previously functionally unannotated proteins of an […]
