ISSN: 2456-7264 | Issue – 28 | Published On 27/03/2024 |
Introduction: Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a mosquito borne viral disease causing encephalitis in human as well as in horse, and abortion in pigs. The virus is maintained in nature by a complex cycle that involves pig as the amplifying host, ardeid birds as reservoirs and mosquitoes as vector. Human and horse
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Are plants intelligent – was once a million dollar question. But not so any more. Now three are evidences that like human being or animals, plants also have intelligence. Research is going on and also have established that plants have their innate sense to attract pollinators or reproduce and protect
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In recent years, biological resource based economic activities are emerging as a powerful engine of economic growth and development. These economic activities are grouped under a new branch of financial system called bio-economy. The “Organizations for Economic Co-operation and Development” (OECD), describes bio-economy as the set of economic activities involving to the
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In the recent past, a relatively new biotechnological tool CRISPR technology which bears the promise of in-vivo genome editing has attracted the attention of scientific community to a great deal. CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. CRISPR and CRISPR-associated (Cas) genes are essential in manifestation of adaptive
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Introduction: Owing to the availability of a wide range of arthropod vectors, vector borne diseases are widely prevalent in India. Dengue, a vector borne disease, is now-a-days considered as one of the most important emerging viral diseases of human and in the recent past it has become a major international public
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The gastro-intestinal tract is home to trillions of microbes including bacteria, fungi and viruses, together known as “gut microbiota”. Influence of gut microbiota on physiology, metabolism, nutrition and immunity make gut microbiota an important organ of our body. Gut microbiota maintains homeostasis, disturbance in which (dysbiosis) are reported to be
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Introduction : Malaria is one of the catastrophic vector-borne diseases that has affected the public health and socio-economic status of many tropical and subtropical countries including India [1]. In Africa alone, US$2 billion economic loss was recorded in 1997 due to high malaria burden [2]. As per WHO report published in
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Biotechnology can be defined as any technique that uses living organisms or substances from such organisms to make or modify a product, to improve plants or animals or to develop microorganisms for specific purposes. It is one of the frontier areas of scientific development in the world today. Advances in
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Stomach cancer is the second-most common cancer among men and third-most among women in Asia and worldwide. A high incidence of gastric cancer has been reported from Southeast Asia, mainly from Japan, China and South Korea. The incidence of cancer in India is 70 - 90 per 100,000 population and cancer
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I guess I don’t so much mind being old as I mind being fat and old - Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) Thus said one of the greatest visionaries and founding fathers of the United States of America in the 18th century AD. It is said that at the time of
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