Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Researchers in Japan and Cambodia have discovered coronaviruses which is similar to COVID-19. These are the first known relatives of SARS-Cov-2 to be found outside China and to be originated from horseshoe bats or Rhinolophus bats. It is still unknown if COVID-19 was transferred directly from bats to people or […]
Aakancha Shaw, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata Minks are dark-coloured and carnivorous mammals. Denmark has always been Europe’s largest producer and exporter of mink furs. So, Why is Denmark planning to kill its mink population? Recently, about 214 human COVID-19 cases in Denmark are related to minks. A mink-variant mutation in the spike protein of the […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata A study carried out at Houston Methodist Hospital and UT Austin involving around 5000 COVID-19 patients found that genetic mutations are getting accumulated in the causative virus which is making it more contagious. Located in the spike protein, the mutation is called D614G according to the peer-reviewed journal Ambio. Random genetic […]
Ayushman Kumar Banerjee With over 43 million COVID-19 cases having surfaced and more than 1.1 million deaths, researchers are relentlessly working round the clock to develop vaccines against the virus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19. This has led to a race for a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, and in this race, Moderna has devised […]
Sampriti Roy, Asutosh College, University of Calcutta SARS-CoV-2, the talk of the town (read “world”), still lacks information related to its origin and exact mechanism. The virus, found to cause DAD (diffuse alveolar damage), leads to respiratory failure which appears to be the common mechanism of death in patients with severe COVID-19 infection. However, with […]
Sampriti Roy, Asutosh College (University of Calcutta) When speaking of cell mechanisms, there are still a large number of the same that remain largely unknown. From understanding viral pathogenesis to antiviral therapeutics development – the identification of viral mechanisms and understanding how the virus defends itself is crucial. This is the case particularly for those […]
Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta Recent research by the University of Georgia has provided solid support on the spread of COVID 19 through fine aerosols being circulated in enclosed space, thereby, persuading people to wear masks particularly indoors. Even though most of the documented COVID 19 transmissions are occurring at enclosed spaces with poor ventilation, […]
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 […]
-Sampriti Roy, Asutosh College, University of Calcutta. “As a result of this unique human viral expression system based on stem cells, it will now be possible to simulate a large number of diseases in their progression and, for the first time, analyse them with the utmost precision”, said Guiscard Seebohm, delighted at the success of […]
Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata A second pandemic shadows our land, following after COVID-19: a pandemic of slumbering brains. We isolated the elder and older to protect them from the virus. A survey by the Washington Post suggests that over 13,000 excess deaths have occurred in dementia patients after the pandemic started, not related to COVID. The neurologist stated […]
