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FLOWER AS A DELICACY

Bhanita Talukdar Research Scholar  Cotton University Edible flowers have been used in culinary arts for flavour and garnish for hundreds of years. Most edible flowers are seasonal and some are sold in local markets. The most common way to consume edible flowers is in fresh but they can also be consumed dried, canned

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ARTIFICIAL CELLS AND PROSPECT OF THEIR APPLICATIONS

Simanta Koushik and Lukumoni Buragohain Department of Animal Biotechnology College of Veterinary Science, AAU Khanapara, Guwahati-22 INTRODUCTION: Artificial cells are engineered particles that mimic one or many characters of a biological cell. They can be integral biological cell imitators with cell-like structures or engineered materials which exhibit some of the key characteristics of living cells.

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EFFECT OF SOIL NITROGEN ON QUALITY OF TEA PLANT

Pubali Bhuyan Research Scholar   pubalibhuyan14feb@gmail.com             Dept. of Life Sciences, Dibrugarh University Besides several mineral nutrients required for plant growth, nitrogen is also required in the largest amounts and is most often limiting. Although some plant species are capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen through symbiotic relationships with soil microbes,

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DNA SEQUENCING AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Biswajyoti Borah Department of Animal Biotechnology College of veterinary science, Khanapara, Guwahati-22 Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the blueprint of life found in each cell. It is responsible for storing heredity information over generations through DNA replication, and transcription followed by translation. It is a double-stranded molecule, where four nitrogenous bases namely adenine, guanine,

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2019-nCoV: The third zoonotic coronavirus of the century

Dr. Ankita Gogoi1 and Dr. Prasanta Chabukdhara2 Ph.D. Scholars (In-service) 1Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, 2Department of Veterinary Biochemistry College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agricultural University, Khanapara, Guwahati Email id: drankita.vet009@gmail.com [This article is being published for the purpose of information only and reflects the current outbreaks and the details available so far.] Introduction With

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Biosafety of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops – Is it really a concern?

B.K. Sarmah and Rubi Gupta DBT-NECAB Assam Agricultural University Jorhat- 13 bidyutsarmah@aau.ac.in Biosafety can be described as the efforts taken up in order to reduce or eliminate the potential risks resulting from biotechnology and its products (Zaid, 2001). Genetically Modified (GM) food crops (legally called as Genetically Engineered crops or Biotech crops) were introduced commercially

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Recent Advances in Cancer Immunotherapy

Dr. Purabi Deka Bose Assistant Professor Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Cotton University Conventional treatment strategies for cancer as existed in last few decades have been surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy [1, 2]. Although these therapies have offered substantial benefit for eradication of primary tumors, the incidence of disease relapse from residual malignant cells

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