Varuni Ankolekar, Quartesian One of the common neurogenerative disorders noticed in elderly populations is Parkinson’s disease that affects movement. Common symptoms are tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, and postural instability. Gene behind Parkinson’s disease: Dysfunction of the Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) gene on chromosome 12 has proven to be the cause of Parkinson’s disease. LRRK2 is […]
Varuni Ankolekar, Quartesian Lately, Artificial Intelligence has facilitated the discovery of much seamless software which has reduced the manual and cumbersome work. This has also helped in the field of Biochemistry and Structural biology. Now, the research team from the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle has revealed […]
Sristi Raj Rai, Amity University Kolkata Handicapped microbes that survive drug attacks are more dangerous than the living ones, as very soon they develop resistance to that specific drug. Macrolides, a class of broad-spectrum antibiotics that has a macrocyclic structure are produced by strains of Streptomyces. These are generally prescribed in case of bacterial infections […]
Sristi Raj Rai, Amity University Kolkata Wanderers outside our body are in search of nutrients and host to persist and multiply to survive on the planet. Obligate endoparasite of Apicomplexa phylum invades human – intermediate/secondary hosts. These single-celled eukaryotes are of high medical and agricultural importance. Members such as Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum can […]
