Shubham Koirala, alumnus at Kathmandu University, Nepal HIV/AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first proclaimed when opportunistic infections and rare malignancies were seen among homosexual men in 1981. It is endorsed that AIDS is caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 (HIV-1) which is also widely known as Lentivirus (belongs to the Retrovirus family). HIV is […]
Anish Pyne, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur With the growing prowess of personalized medicines and molecular drugs, a group of methods took the central stage allowing the introduction of highly specific changes within the genome by either adding or deleting, or substituting any desired sequence, thus modifying the natural characteristics of a gene. And this […]
Surupa Chakraborty, Amity University Kolkata The 21st century witnessed one of the major scientific breakthroughs when scientists revealed the development of a biological tool called CRISPR/Cas9 that can enable us to rewrite or edit the DNA of existing genomes. Ever since then, highly targeted gene editing has been made possible which could potentially revolutionize the […]
