Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Microbial Ecology known as environmental microbiology is the study of microorganisms’ relationship with each other as well as their environment. The main goal of researchers in this department is to capture the maximum amount of information from all organisms that are present in a given sample. Traditionally DNA-based protocols are […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta Since the dawn of a global pandemic this year, infectious diseases have been a popular topic of discussion and research. With infectious diseases being a threat to the global economy and public health, and with ARBs or antimicrobial resistance bacteria on the rise, the world is in need of progress […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. Quite a mouthful isn’t it? In the name itself is hidden, its definition. It is composed of short identical palindromic DNA segments that are separated with spacer DNA, which are all unique. There are also a number of genes associated with […]
Ayushman Kumar Banerjee With over 43 million COVID-19 cases having surfaced and more than 1.1 million deaths, researchers are relentlessly working round the clock to develop vaccines against the virus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19. This has led to a race for a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, and in this race, Moderna has devised […]
-Shristi Sharma, Team bioXone Researchers from Duke University have found a drug against enterovirus 71, a virus that causes hand, foot, and mouth disease in infants and young children. While many patients recover in a week after sustaining fever and rashes, some even face paralysis and brain edema in severe cases. The drug compound in […]
