Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Being bald, losing all hair is a common scene nowadays, caused mainly by the stressful lifestyle we lead. Relaxing is what doctors prescribe to deal with stress, but recently conducted research says that it could have more sides to that. Researchers have claimed that relaxing, helps in growing hair. […]
Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University, Kolkata The key to herd immunity is that, whether or not an individual becomes infected, there are too few susceptible hosts around to keep up transmission — individuals who are immunized or have effectively had the disease can’t spread the infection. The vaccines created by Moderna and Pfizer–BioNTech, for instance, are […]
-Shristi Sharma, Team Bioxone MSc/MTech/Ph.D. Life Sciences candidates are encouraged to apply for Research Associate Vacancy at the Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development. ADVERTISEMENT NO. AP/136 Applications are invited from deserved and also suitable applicants for the post of Junior Research Fellow under the project entitled “Sub-Network 1: Studies on anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity of selected medicinal plants […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Coronavirus became a household name, as the pandemic swept people off their feet, locking them in their houses, rendering them sick, leading to death on severe occasions. After months into the pandemic, in December 2020, the government of Israel approved the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination and proclaimed a mass immunization […]
Shagufta Hasan, Amity University Kolkata The world has had hard knocks with COVID-19 vaccines but no drug seems to give full coverage against the virus, but now, it may hope for good news. A new drug, Molnupiravir, has been developed by Merck & Co. Inc in association with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, a biotechnology company, focused on […]
-Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata One of the parts of the society which remains under huge threat for the spreading of the deadly SARS-CoV-2 is the care homes. Older people with health issues remain to be the vulnerable target of this virus. The shared living accommodations along with residents, staff and visitors in an enclosed […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela The global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 is still a threat to the human population. As of February 2020, more than 102 million people globally have been infected, and over 2.21 million deaths reported. COVID-19 pandemic has a profuse impact on the economic as well as […]
-Rohit Bhattacharjee, Amity University Kolkata Coronavirus 2019 – the episode is a worldwide pandemic brought about by (SARS-CoV-2) which at first analyzed in Chinese patients of Hubei’s Wuhan city toward the beginning of December 2019. COVID-19 has been proclaimed a worldwide wellbeing catastrophe by World Health Organization (WHO) as the illness quickly communicated human-to-human and […]
Parnad Basu, Amity University Kolkata The pandemic caused by COVID-19 is continuing still. The causative viral pathogen of COVID-19 is SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2). This SARS-CoV-2 actually belongs to the β coronavirus genus along with SARS-CoV (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus) and MERS-CoV (middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus). Although SARS-CoV-2 targets the […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata Due to the global outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, various sanitation strategies have been adopted worldwide so that the spread of the virus and the disease can be prevented. One such strategy which is adopted for sterilization in offices and homes is the use of […]
