Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta When an obvious cause of the disease is not present, a doctor takes into account the patient’s medical history, age, symptoms, test results and overall health to figure out what is wrong. By doing this and thus correlating different factors, they figure out what is most likely the issue. This […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata The crucial mechanism for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 1 (SARS-CoV-1) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections initializes with the binding of the viral spike protein to angiotensin-converting enzyme II (ACE2) human receptor protein. In order to create a set of ACE2 variants optimized for affinity and […]
-Arpita Adhikary, Amity University Kolkata At the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, a rapid antigen test is developed using novel optical technology, iStrip technology is used to measure the saliva even in a very low amount and after 15 minutes result is displayed on the instrument’s small screen. This efficient, quick, and cost-effective ($A25 per […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata The spike proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 have been always the subject of interest in how it attaches to the human cells and causes the disease. Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is identified as the functional receptor for SARS-CoV (the virus observed in 2003); they are present in the epithelia of the […]
Binayak Das, Team Bioxone A study conducted to unravel the potential of immunotherapy for patients affected by the covid-19 virus has announced that treatment with intravenous-immunoglobulin can potentially benefit covid-19 patients that are severely affected. Intravenous immunoglobulin or IVIG is the collection of IgG obtained from the blood serum of a large number of healthy […]
Sampriti Roy, Asutosh College, University of Calcutta SARS-CoV-2, the talk of the town (read “world”), still lacks information related to its origin and exact mechanism. The virus, found to cause DAD (diffuse alveolar damage), leads to respiratory failure which appears to be the common mechanism of death in patients with severe COVID-19 infection. However, with […]
Anwesha Chatterjee, Amity University Kolkata The novel Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2) infection which is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic is expecting an adverse effect on the progression of multiple cancers, i.e. prostate cancer, due to the transpiring cytokine storm associated with oncogenic signalling. Cancer progression can be prevented at an early stage by blocking SARS-COV-2 infection […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata The pandemic, that is, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world all of a sudden, changing infection rates or rather increasing it every day without leaving the world to think of the ways to fight with the unknown enemy, the virus. This created a lot of panic at the beginning of […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Down syndrome (DS), also known as trisomy 21 is the most persistent aneuploidy characterized by a genetic disorder caused due to the triplication of the 21st human chromosome. This syndrome is particularly associated with the development of congenital heart disease, sleep apnoea, obesity, diabetes, premature ageing, and higher sensitivity to […]
PRIYANKA CHAKRABORTY, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Recently, researchers from various universities in Spain hypothesized that serum zinc level had a particular influence on COVID-19 patients, further stating it as a useful biomarker in predicting COVID-19 in its’ early stage. In an observational study of 249 COVID-19 patients to identify the severity of the disease and to […]
