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 […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University SARS-CoV-2, a strain from the Coronavirus family, is responsible for the ongoing global pandemic of COVID-19, taking the lives of millions of people via an infectious respiratory illness. Several studies have been conducted on this virus to find target proteins responsible for the infection as a therapeutic. Thus, spike (S) protein […]
Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow Amongst so many vaccine options recently developed in different parts of the world, Sputnik V has proven to be a great candidate due to a lot of factors. Firstly, is its high efficacy of about 92% against the coronavirus disease caused by the SARS-CoV2 viral strains. Also known as […]
Madhavi Bhatia, NIPER Guwahati SARS-CoV-19, well known as a severe acute respiratory syndrome that affects mainly the respiratory system of humans has become a global pandemic. Various vaccines have been approved worldwide to curb the disease. In Australia, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine is approved. Both these vaccines are a type of encapsulated mRNA vaccine, […]
Ananya Ghosal, MAKAUT (WB) Porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDV) is a highly infectious virus and has a high mortality rate in neonates. A vaccine’s goal is to co-assemble Nomo trimer spikes on PEDV membranes to enable host cell entry. The PEDV S protein’s immunogenicity in mice assessed using a silkworm-baculovirus expression vector system. Trimerized S […]
Aqsa, Jamia Millia Islamia The Delta Strain: The world has witnessed various strains of the Covid-19 virus. These strains are the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta strains. These were previously known as the UK, South Africa, Brazilian, and Indian variants, respectively indicating the country of their origin. Among these, the delta variant is the deadliest mutation […]
Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University Kolkata We all know how the horrific Covid19 pandemic has shaken the entire world. With the SARS-corona virus, 2 is the main culprit, it has claimed millions of lives worldwide and has disrupted the socio-economic balance of all countries. The virus has been a cause of concern due to its variants […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University, Kolkata Severe respiratory disease coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) results in the extensively devastating disease, COVID-19, of the recent century. One of the unsolved scientific concerns around SARS-CoV-2 is the animal lineage of this virus. Bats and pangolins are acknowledged as considerably reasonable reservoir hosts that harbor the highly related SARS-CoV-2 related viruses. Identification […]
Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is currently raging across our country, and in its most lethal form by far. While scientists are still carrying out extensive research for a permanent one-size-fits-all cure, there are other forms of treatment and prevention strategies. They include vaccine development, designing of macromolecular neutralizing antibodies, and […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata Since the identification of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the spike protein of it has been a topic of great interest among researchers. These spike proteins are capable of infecting the host cells after their attachment to the ACE2 receptor binding domain. The new mutated strains have caused a huge amount of […]
