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The health department’s politically appointed communications aides have demanded the right to review and seek changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly scientific reports charting the progress of the coronavirus pandemic, in what officials characterized as an attempt to intimidate the reports’ authors and water down their communications to health professionals. In some cases, emails from communications aides to CDC Director Robert Redfield and other senior officials openly complained that the agency’s reports would undermine President Donald Trump’s optimistic messages about the outbreak, according to emails reviewed by POLITICO and three people familiar with the situation. Michael…

by Kamal Pratap Singh   |    September 2020 About The Book The book ‘‘ Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Therapeutics (Medical Virology: From Pathogenesis to Disease Control)’’ provides a comprehensive overview of recent novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection, their biology and associated challenges for their treatment and prevention of novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Discussing various aspects of COVID-19 infection, including global epidemiology, genome organization, immunopathogenesis, transmission cycle, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control strategies, it highlights host-pathogen interactions, host immune response, and pathogen immune invasion strategies toward developing an immune intervention or preventive vaccine for COVID-19. This book…

Dr. Maneesha Phadke corresponding author e-mail: maneesha2605@gmail.com Abstract   The whole mankind is at a vulnerable stage at present due to a unique challenge brought on by  the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). The recent pandemic is likely to bring stressful times for all leading to universal psychosocial impact, economic burden along with mass hysteria or mass fear of COVID-19, termed as “coronaphobia”. The implied lockdown across the globe due to high infectivity and fatality rate resulting in a plethora of psychological consequences. In order to prevent disease spread and help to develop herd immunity, forced quarantine is implied world over to combat…

by Biotech Express Bureau |  September 2020 ASPIRE, Association for Scientific Pursuits in Innovative Research Enterprises, is a section-8, not-for-profit organization that manages the innovation and entrepreneurial activities at the University of Hyderabad through incubation of startup companies in various disciplines of science and technology. BioNEST at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) is a life sciences bio-incubator with 20000 sft, set-up with the Support of the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), a Government of India Enterprise under Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology. It provides a plug-and-play life science ecosystem for incubation. UOH STARTUP SELECTED FOR COVID-19…

Suhana Mishra and Amir Mohammad Arsh suhanamishra05@gmail.com, arsh786rizvi@gmail.com ABSTRACT Confidence plays a significant role in safeguarding both mental and physical health. As the pandemic triggers critical damage from socio-economic distress to mental health, it gives psychiatric issues to individuals. COVID-19 affects not just the individual infected but all those who were or are present around them. People feels lonely because of quarantine that causes depression, tension, sorrow, boredom and can be coped up by the self-confidence, inner peace, social help, proper knowledge about COVID-19 etc. Any issue including the COVID-19 pandemic can be solved by being calm, mentally sound, and…

Ankit Sharma1, Barkha Singhal*1,2 School of Biotechnology, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida (U.P.), India, Pin: 201312 Corresponding Author Email id: barkha@gbu.ac.in, gupta.barkha@gmail.com Phone: +911202344290, Fax: +911202344205, Mobile: 09871167765 http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0538-662X Abstract: The past decade portrayed a quantum leap on various insights on a largely unchartered biosphere inside our body that confers potential health implications and immense complexity. Though, now-a-days the linking of every orders and disorders with gut is a common phenomenon but still myriad of functions need to be explicated that remains mystery till date. Currently the wide exploration is restricted to microbiome (bacterial communities) but variety of inhabiting fungus…

Deepak Agarwal1*, Ashraf Rathar2, A. Kathirvelpandian1, and S. A. Shanmugam1 1Institue of Fisheries Post Graduate Studies, TNJFU, OMR Campus, Chennai 2Sher-e- Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology- Kashmir [Email: Deepakbfsc@gmail.com] Abstract Aquaculture is the culture of water bore plants and aquatic animals in an artificial environment mimics the natural habitat. It is an emerging science engaged in the food and nutrition security of the world. Due to the demand for fish across the globe, this science needs advancement to enhance the production and supply of nutrition to meet the increasing demand of the country. Because of that, to implement…

This is the second time we are asking questions from an expert on COVID-19 pandemic, the first one was Prof. Guntaka Ramareddy, the discoverer of Hep B genome and its recombinant vaccine in India. In this interview with Dr Ram we are trying to know how he sees the biological pandemic like COVID-19 when he is currently working in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr Ram Shankar Upadhayaya has 20+ years of experience of R&D in academia and industry in the field of Medicinal chemistry and Molecular Oncology. He has served Ranbaxy Research Ltd., Delhi, India, Lupin Ltd., Institute of Molecular Medicine, Delhi;…

Dr. B.S. Bajaj (DoB: 19/9/1927), founder of Federation of Asian Biotech Associations (FABA), which organizes BioAsia, a  prestigious global Bio Business Forum held every year in Hyderabad in association with the Government of Telangana, passed away on 28th July, 2020. Dr. B. S. Bajaj, MSc; PhD; FPSI was the Founder and Chairman – All India Biotech Association-Southern Chapter (AIBA-SC), Founder and Secretary General – Federation of Asian Biotech Associations (FABA), and former member, AP Govt. Biotech Advisory Council, former member of Board of Directors of NATCO Pharma Ltd, Pacific Hospital (Pvt) Ltd, Otira Pharmaceuticals Private Ltd., and Transcell Biologics (Pvt)…

Arti Pandey Ram Sewak Singh Mahila College, BRABU Muzaffarpur, Bihar (INDIA) Email: artibuddy@gmail.com INTRODUCTION This review paper is an attempt to understand and recapitulate the published scientific articles/research papers about the deadly pandemic Coronavirus. In this review paper, we tried to provide an insight regarding early findings on the symptoms, causes, clinical diagnosis, spread, as well as prevention and control of COVID-19. This review is based on the information collected via various research publications on different websites. It can be helpful to get vital information for researchers, scientists, and anyone curious to know about this deadly disease. We hope this…