Author: Biotech Express

Recently UK has announced that it has got second mutated strain of COVID-19 The United Kingdom is also the first country to begin COVID inoculation using a vaccine. The World Health Organization which has criticized several times before in pandemic has said it found a “substantial increase in transmission of the virus but no evidence yet of increased severity” however it has not shown except on twitter that how they conclude this and what they have studied so far. The news are all over but there is no genetic or proteomics study to show the claims. We have searched internet…

In the early days of the pandemic, the IHME projected a far less severe outbreak than other models, which drew the attention of Donald Trump, who was eager to downplay the danger. At a March 31 press briefing, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, Debbie Birx, with the president at her side, used IHME charts to show that the pandemic was rapidly winding down. ““Throughout April, millions of Americans were falsely led to believe that the epidemic would be over by June because of IHME’s projections,” the data scientist Youyang Gu noted in his review of the institute’s work. “I think…

The Union health ministry has said in response to an RTI application that it does not know where records related to agenda circulated in meetings of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC) are held. Venkatesh Nayak of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative had approached the ministry seeking details of the constitution and working of the expert group such as dates of meetings, a copy of the detailed agenda circulated in relation to every meeting, presentations made before its members, and material it had shared with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). Nayak had also sought to know…

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford released positive results about their covid-19 vaccine being the frontrunner, claiming that it was on average 70 per cent effective, and could reach 90 per cent efficacy depending on dosing. But Researchers have raised several questions over the findings. During the AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford’s clinical trials, some participants were mistakenly given half a dose rather than a full dose in their first round of shots, according to BBC News. Still, the trial continued and the researchers discovered those given the weaker dosage produced a better immune response. The results…

by Kamal Pratap Singh, kamal9871@gmail.com Despite various questions about effectiveness, safety and availability there seems a hurry to release COVID treatment by individuals, scientists, organizations and Nations. There are numerous examples of failures like Solidarity trial candidates – remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir/ritonavir and interferon, AstraZeneca’s Calquence, Novartis’ Ilaris, Sanofi & Regeneron’s Kevzara, Eli Lilly antibody drug, Roche’s Actemra, Glenmark’s Favipiravir, Biocon’s Itolizumab, Patanjali’s Coronil and many many more. In this article we are discussing how the organizations came up with magical treatment and how these products were criticized and soon vanished from the news headlines, even though there was urgent need…

by Dr Seema P Upadhaye While we have a lot of promising COVID-19 vaccine candidates ready to roll out in the earliest timeline possible, this is the first time that a vaccine for such a novel infection has been developed in such an accelerated manner. That also leaves space for a lot of trial errors and side effects we might be exposed to, once the vaccination drives start. Experts pointed out that the lack of transparency in releasing crucial information and data could lead to stricter scrutiny by regulators in many countries and mistrust among people. Vaccines, though they are…

Chennai-based volunteer served a Rs 5 crore compensatory legal notice to the Serum Institute of India (SII) against the neurological complications he claimed to have developed after being administered a test dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca ‘Covishield’ vaccine for coronavirus. The 40-year-old volunteer, who works as a business consultant, had, in the legal notice, stated that he “must be compensated, in the least, for all the sufferings that he and his family have undergone” because the candidate vaccine was not safe. The participant has been diagnosed with acute neuro encephalopathy, which he alleged was a side-effect of the ‘Covishield’ shots he took…

By Saurabh Mandal Email- mandalsaurabh93@gmail.com The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the attention of everyone, toward scientists and researchers across the globe. Because, the general public is eagerly waiting for a vaccine or any targeted therapy, no other disease outbreak had seen such a situation before. It was 11thMarch 2020, when the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced COVID-19 as a pandemic. Since then, India is trying hard to suppress the virus spread. India became the second worst-hit nation in the world by the second week of September 2020, which has now crossed 8 million total cases and in the worldwide…

This article lists agricultural universities (AUs) in India, by state or territory. Although a number of Indian universities offer agricultural education, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), the main regulator of agricultural education, recognizes three “Central Agricultural Universities”, four Deemed Universities and 63 “State Agricultural Universities”, as of January 2021. The state with the most agricultural universities in India is Uttar Pradesh with seven universities (one deemed, one central and five state universities). There are no agricultural universities in Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim or Tripura, nor on any of the union territories, except Delhi and Jammu…