ISSN: 2456-7264 | Issue – 24 | Published On 10/03/2023 |
One more hope to tackle Type 1 Diabetes Diabetes is an endocrine disease characterized by high blood sugar level due to either deficient insulin production by pancreas or the body cannot use the produced insulin effectively. Almost 463 million people of the world had diabetes as of 2019. Generally, diabetes is
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Research Highlights mRNA vaccines to combat malaria Malaria is a mosquito-borne febrile disease of human caused by haemoparasites of Plasmodium spp.. The disease is prevalent worldwide and the estimated number of cases across the globe is 241 million annually. In 2020, the numbers of death in the world due to malaria was
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Research Highlights Ultrasonography with a sticker Ultrasonography is one of the indispensable non-invasive diagnostic tools both in medical and veterinary science. It is mostly used for imaging tissues and organs to determine various patho-physiological status of human and animals. However, the use of probe or transducer is a constraint in monitoring patients
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Research Highlights New platform to edit mitochondrial DNA Nobel Prize was awarded in 2020 for development of gene editing technology ‘CRISPR/Cas9’. Although, CRISPR/Cas9 technology has revolutionized the process of genome editing, it was restricted to nuclear genome, and mitochondrial DNA was untouched as the guide RNA is not capable to enter the
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Research Highlights Unrevealing the genesis of “Omicron” By the end of 2021, the world has understood the impact of COVID-19 in most of the dimensions of life; however, there are many mysteries in the genesis, virulence, pathogenesis, evolution and mutation of SARS-CoV-2. Since 2020, we are experiencing new heats of COVID-19 in
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Research Highlights The most awaited day to end Malaria has arrived Malaria is caused by Plasmodium group of parasites and it is one of the deadly infectious diseases of human transmitted by mosquitoes. Annually, more than 200 million cases and 400,000 deaths are reported worldwide. But after many decades of research, the
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Status of new therapeutics to fight COVID-19 Most of the newly developed COVID-19 vaccines are showing promising results in controlling the pandemic across the globe. However, the hunt for potent and effective therapeutics against COVID-19 is still on because availability of effective therapeutic agent(s) is also a pre-requisite to end the
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Novel Escherichia coli to produce animal origin drug Chondroitin sulfate (CS), a kind of sulphated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), is a component of joint tissues in human. CS has therapeutic value and is commonly used in the treatment of osteoarthritis. Not only CS but also most of the commercial GAGs are extracted from
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Self-testing COVID-19 kit The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have approved the first self-testing COVID-19 diagnostic kit to be used at home. It is a molecular test based on real-time loop mediated amplification reaction for detection of SARS-COV-2. The kit is commercialized as the Lucira COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit intended
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Research Highlights Intranasal vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 Virus The world scientific community is in hunt for COVID-19 vaccine. Although many vaccine candidates are in clinical trials, the hunt for newer ones is still in progress. In this regard, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis) have examined the efficacy of a
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