ISSN: 2456-7264 | Issue – 28 | Published On 27/03/2024 |
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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Hunt for COVID-19 vaccines Vaccination is the most effective way to control viral diseases. But it is challenging to develop a potent vaccine against any novel virus such as novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2), which is causing pandemic and a threat to the mankind. Thrust of COVID-19 has ignited the race among the
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Designed mosquito to combat dengue Dengue fever caused by Dengue virus (DENV) is a mosquito-borne tropical disease. Globally, millions of people are infected by dengue virus and thousands of people die every year. Dengue fever is mainly spread by female mosquitoes, principally Aedes aegypti. One of the preventive measures to control
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The Artificial Leaf A scientific team from University of Cambridge have invented a carbon-neutral device called Artificial Leaf for production of synthetic gas (syngas). Basically, syngas is a mixture of hydrogen, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, and used in production of fuels, pharmaceuticals, plastics and fertilisers. The device is based on
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Get evolved as per your choice Directed evolution is not unknown for most of the scientific community of this era but the existing technologies for directed evolution are not suitable for mammalian cells as they are laborious and time-consuming, although some traditional methods are well established for bacterial cells. To address
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Four new letters to DNA (Hachimoji DNA) An interdisciplinary scientific team has amplified the four natural nucleotides into eight by introducing another four new synthetic nucleotides. This eight-letter DNA molecule is termed as Hachimoji DNA which is derived from Japanese meaning eight and letter. The new unusual nucleotides were named as
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A contemporary technique for DNA synthesis Most of the biological research of the present era requires synthetic pieces of DNA in the form of primers, probes, genes and sometime even artificial chromosomes. The current process of DNA synthesis is based on nucleoside phosphoramidite method which is lengthy, error-prone with the increasing
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