Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta Leukemia is a malignancy of blood cells that starts to develop when the DNA of a single cell in the bone marrow mutates and fails to develop and function properly. These leukemia cells crowd out normal blood cells, making it difficult for the normal cells to do their job. Chronic […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata As the world is waiting anxiously for a powerful and effective vaccine against covid-19, researchers are also trying to identify how coronavirus attacks the body to stop its devastating impact. One such possible way has been discovered in a recent study by researchers of John Hopkins University. This can be done […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata After the recovery of President Donald Trump from Covid-19 using a similar therapy as of the antibody medicine from AstraZeneca Plc, the company has started its late-stage trials for the same against COVID-19. The medicine will undergo two trials on more than 60000 people starting soon. Astra has also planned […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Amidst the pandemic prevailing recently due to the SARS-CoV-2, there is something which still can’t be ignored, the flu which leads to thousands of deaths in the US and infects about 11% of the population each year according to CDC. With the arrival of the flu along with the COVID-19, […]
Ayooshi Mitra, Amity University Kolkata To avert the spread of the pandemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), a successful vaccine is needed. In an examination directed recently, safety, tolerability, and neutralizer reaction information from an on-going placebo-controlled treatment observer-blinded phase 1/2 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine trial BNT162b1, a lipid nanoparticle (LNP) nucleoside-modified […]
-Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in partnership with Hyderabad-based vaccine maker Biological E, has developed a “highly purified antisera” which will be utilized in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19. Antisera are blood sera that carry antibodies against a selected viral toxin or antigen and are introduced to […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata Severity and death from Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) are associated with the older population; testing such vaccine candidates is important to prevent infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A phase 1, open-label trial with an escalated dose of messenger RNA vaccine, mRNA-1273, which encodes the stabilized prefusion […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata The Chinese authorities attested that a various number of people in northwest China have tested positive for brucellosis, a bacterial disease which is supposedly infected through livestock carrying the bacteria Brucella, due to an outbreak that generated from a leak at a biopharmaceutical factory in the previous year. The factory […]
–PRIYANKA CHAKRABORTY, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA The foundation for the quest in vaccine discovery lies in antibodies and its immune response. Immunoglobulins (minute proteins) are the sole defenders against invading pathogens. Therefore, the detailed study of the immune system is a fascination around the globe. Recently, Dr. Josef Penninger’s group at IMBA and UBC were amazed […]
-Anuska Sen, Team bioXone On 10th September 2020, that is 2 days back, Team BioXone had covered a piece of news stating the pause of the Covid-19 vaccine of AstraZeneca by Serum Institute. Today, it has been reported that once again, the trials for AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine has been successfully resumed. The one reason that […]
