Madhavi Bhatia, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Guwahati Annual molt is a critical physiology event that exists in multiple phyla across the animal kingdom. The event is characterized by periodic partial or complete shedding and replacement of the organism’s outer layer. In birds and mammals, the molt is associated with a variable loss […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University The intermediate and transitory reaction of breast-tumour stiffness to pathological rigidity has been carefully investigated in their native microwave environment. However, it remains unclear how the main phenotypes of stiffness caused by the cancer cell are stained in vivo over a while. Certain mechanisms are associated based on how fibrotic-like matrix […]
Arya Sukumar, College of Agriculture, Vellayani Innovators at Purdue University are waiting to obtain a patent for their new invention; a biosensor that can be printed in 3D using an automated printing system that can simultaneously record and create images of tissues and organs during surgery. What is a biosensor? A Biosensor is an […]
Aqsa, Jamia Millia Islamia A nucleosome is a DNA segment of 147-bp coiled around a histone octamer. Each histone octamer is made up of two copies of each of the histone proteins H2A, H2B, H3, and H4. It is the fundamental subunit of chromatin. Although it seems that the nucleosome has its significance only in […]
-Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University, Kolkata Just like the military is important for our protection from enemies, similarly, the organ systems in our body, also need protection. The frontline warriors of most of our organ systems are the immune cells that are present in our circulation. The exception is the brain. In a recent study conducted […]
-Pratyushee Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata In pursuit of life everlasting, some turn to God. Others turn to science. Or rather, something scientific!If you have ever thought of being cryogenically frozen, you may encounter a legal hurdle. While human cryonics is legal in several countries, you’ve got to be dead before going into the cryonics tank! Otherwise, freezing someone alive is tantamount to killing. So, as it […]
