Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University Resistant bacteria are a major concern in modern healthcare and pose a severe threat to public health. In today’s health care system, the development of pathogenic species resistant to antibiotics is one of the biggest difficulties. Public health is increasingly being affected by infections produced by multidrug-resistant bacteria (MDR). Originally, these […]
Nimrit Palan, Mumbai University. What is Epigenetics? Epigenetics is the study of genes functions influenced by your behaviour and your surroundings. Epigenetics is the study of heritable phenotypic modifications that do not entail DNA sequence changes in biology. DNA Methylation: DNA methylation is a procedure in which methyl groups are added to the DNA molecule. […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University The continuous changes in climate conditions are happening at a very rapid pace due to global warming. We are already observing the effects of climate change whether it is the heat waves in Canada or the recent flooding in Germany. The predicted results of the past are quickly coming true. Although […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University, Noida COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of turmoil all around the world. According to WHO nearly 164 million people were infected worldwide out of which 3.4 million people lost their lives worldwide. Now, as we know COVID 19 is a respiratory disease caused by SARS-C0V-2 which belongs to the […]
Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University Noida CRISPR is a highly innovative technique, used in gene editing. Usually, CRISPR is known to eliminate undesirable genes, but activation of genes to provide the functionality to a plant or organisms is pretty new. But recently a study conducted by a group of researchers in Nature Plants, headed by […]
Shayan Ahmed, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi It has been discovered that Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 9 (CDK9) is an important regulator of RNA Polymerase II transcription. As a regulator CDK9 works across the transcription unit at multiple locations. These include the transcriptional pause release before elongation by the action of positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb). […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) is a repair pathway of the genomic DNA. The genomic DNA can be damaged due to a variety of endogenous and environmental mutagens such as exposure of the skin cells to UV radiations from the sun. Such DNA damage can be repaired by the nucleotide excision repair […]
Nandini Pharasi, Jaypee Institute of information technology Thomas Jefferson provided the first evidence that RNA segment can be written back to DNA which is a great challenge to central dogma. Each cell in our body has a specific mechanism that is it undergoes duplication of DNA to form new cells. The enzyme behind this is […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata One of the main functions a cell performs is the synthesis of proteins. This is done with the help of a set of factors called “transcription factors”. A team of researchers from Uppasala University have succeeded in studying transcription factors that are several billion years old. The studies helped them […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Lots of living organisms are used in Biotechnology as protein production hosts. They are extremely useful in drug development, biopharmaceuticals, and protein delivery. In this new research, earthworms are developed as next-generation animal protein production hosts, something that has never been done before. Escherichia coli, our favorite bacteria has been […]
