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Bio-Business -INVESTING IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
As future of biotechnology sector seems to be bright and further with more advancement of technology it seems to be easier to become an investor in the sector of biotechnology. Investment is a process...
View ArticleBacteria's Arsenal: How They Resist Host Defence & Antimicrobials?
Many diseases (if not all) are a direct consequence of infection by some pathogenic organism (especially bacteria). Having read and known the very efficient and complicated immune systems of human...
View ArticleControlling Pathogens: Using the Divide and Conquer Strategy
Unity is strength, they say. This is also true in bacterial pathogenesis. Recent researches reveal that many pathogenic bacteria have communication networks that let them know when their numbers are...
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Historical Advances in Bioweapons
The intentionally developed toxins/pathogens of biological origin with an aim to harm the target hosts (normally humans), by disrupting their biological processes, are called Biohazard weapons or...
View ArticleNew metabolomics methods by NextGen show promise
Metabolomics is an emerging research method in life sciences that takes the approach of quantifying and analysing all metabolites in a given sample. Changes as low as one I a few thousand can be...
View ArticleLeukemia Drugs for Treating Neurodegenerative Disorders
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center plan to start a clinical trial with humans, furthering their finding related to applying small doses of a leukemia drug to mice brains. These small...
View ArticleCholesterol drug STATIN side-effects under research
University of Arizona, a research team working on neurons treated with statin has made a new discovery; unusual ball-like swellings within neurons, which the team has termed the "beads-on-a-string"...
View ArticleRevolutionary Nano-Bio-Bandages by MIT
Have you ever wondered what makes the gecko lizard stroll over practically any surface--be it a ceiling/floor/wall? Have you ever imagined a situation where soldiers at the war-front could instantly...
View ArticleInstability of Stem Cells
Stem cells are the basic building blocks for many types of cells in the body. Despite the big therapeutic potential for stem cells to treat serious disorders, there are still concerns about potentially...
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Bacterial Viruses as Antibiotics
The enemy of my enemy is my friend - Can bacterial viruses be used as antibiotics? Viruses, often guilty of causing diseases in animals and plants, usually have the reputation of being the bad guys....
View ArticleLeukemia patients may benefit from existing cancer medication
Researchers at the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University have made a new discovery giving hope to patients suffering from two types of leukemia previously thought...
View ArticleMuscle Cell Death Infuses New Life in Muscles!
The title of this article might have been dilemmic, but it's true! Death of muscle cells infuses life in muscles! In a recent research publication of Amelia E. Hochreiter-Hufford et al., in The Nature,...
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Coffee Ring Effect in Bacterial Systems
Have you ever observed a drop of coffee/any colloidal solution drying? If you've observed it carefully, you'll find that it dries up in a ring form-the particles collect together at the boundary of the...
View ArticleBiosafety Levels and its Importance
Definition: On the basis of the health and environmental risk associated with biological agent, the biosafety levels are classified. Today various labs, research centers and institutes working with...
View ArticleNew Discovery for Migrane Treatment - Migraine Genetic Link
Migraine is neurological chronic disorder. Characteristic of this disorder is recurrent headache which can be very severe. Sometimes, these headaches could be followed with some autonomic nervous...
View ArticleMiracle Poison: Can a Lethal Neurotoxin be a Therapeutic?
Botulinum neurotoxin, produced by the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium botulinum is the most potent biological toxin identified thus far. A minute amount of botulinum toxin can lead to botulism,...
View ArticleAdmission Notifications for B.Sc Biotechnology and Bioinformatics and M.Sc...
The Department of Bioinformatics was started in the academic year 2004 to enable ing students understand and learn the fundamental principles of Science through optimal methods of teaching. The...
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Shock Your Brain To Out-Smart Mathematics!
Amazed by the title?? Well, you must be! But, this is true indeed as per the recent research carried out by a group of scientists from the University of Oxford (UK), University College London (UK) and...
View Article10 Amazing Biotechnological Advances in April 2013
So much developments have taken place in the field of biotechnology that it might need an infinite array of books to compile them at a place altogether! So, I just thought about introducing you to...
View ArticleSpider Silk: A Thread So Fine
Spider silk can actually stop a train! A group of physics students at United Kingdom's University of Leicester declare. According to their calculations, a single strand of silk from Darwin's bark...
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