Tholkappian R, NIT Durgapur Nirmatrelvir is an oral inhibitor of the SARS-CoV-2’s, 3-chymotrypsin–like cysteine protease, while VV116 is a deuterated remdesivir hydro-bromide with potent activity against SARS-CoV-2. Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir was used to treat COVID-19 of low to moderate severity. However, its production could not meet the global supply demands. VV116 is one such oral analog of […]
Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed by researchers at UC San Diego can withstand the heat. What are their key ingredients? Plant or bacterial viruses. Vaccine technology: We are still in the early phases of developing the new refrigerator-free COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccine candidates stimulated the mice to produce high […]
Aqsa, Jamia Millia Islamia Vaccination is the quickest and most effective way to protect against infectious diseases. It helps your body to recognize the specific pathogen and generate an immune response against it. Different vaccines have been developed against the causative agent of the current Covid-19 pandemic. These vaccines have undergone successful clinical trials and […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata COVID-19 has already taken over 4 million lives around the world, hence testing is essential for understanding the virus and controlling its spread. Currently, the tests are restricted by two factors, time taken and the accuracy required for analyzing a sample. The third factor which poses a challenge towards the […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow Delta variant has been a recent SARS-CoV-2 strain that is building serious concern among researchers. The COVID-19 disease has proven deadly with newer strains evolving from various regions globally. A lot of research went onto developing vaccines that work against various SARS-CoV-2 strains. The newly evolved strains tend to […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow The spread of SARS-CoV-2 has been devastating to human health globally with a recent death count of about 4 million. A major concern amongst scientists has been the reverse zoonosis which could seriously aggravate the spread of the virus. This could also result in newer variants evolving in animal […]
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, […]
Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida Pfizer Inc. and Merck & Co. in the race to find treatments for Covid-19 have joined a Japanese company in starting human trials for the first once-daily pill. Shionogi and Co., of Osaka, claimed that its pill would neutralize the Coronavirus in five days or less. The […]
Monika Raman, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore The advent of the current COVID-19 pandemic and its ongoing worldwide spread has emphasized the necessity for quickly and efficiently identifying novel or recurrent medicinal medicines. Even though antiviral drug findings are available, the majority prefer to concentrate on the effects of such medications on a particular virus, […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata To understand the movement and behaviour of fish in a pond, it’s necessary to study it in a pond in summer rather than a pond in winter. A fish that lives in an icy condition would remain still, this would help study its scales, but it won’t reveal the behaviour of […]
