Two types of immunity exist: active and passive. When our body deliberately resists itself, active immunity occurs. Passive immunity is where we get assistance by immunisation from outside sources. The Latin term tolerance, exemption or resistance was used for the word immunity. Latin immunis was first used in…
The regular spice of the kitchen is a potential applicant for the creation of a medicine against Coronavirus by a team of Indian scientists. Dhanbad has found that Piperine, found in black pepper, can connect and inhibit the SARS-Cov-2 viruse that causes the disease, a computer analysis carried…
The relation between mortality levels in the coronavirus-infected disease and air pollution has been established by the team of CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI). As winters reach the area of Delhi/NCR, the issue of smog has begun. The Air Quality Index has decreased to unhealthy levels during…
Constituent laboratories of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have continuously been cooperating with industry on the establishment and conduct of clinical studies to launch repurposes of medicaments. CSIR labs has participated significantly in the development of SARS-CoV-2 screening diagnostic kits, including Feluda and Dry Swab…
Rapamycin has been identified as a potential drug that can be repurposed to treat COVID-19 by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, and the University of Nebraska Medical Centre, Nebraska (UNMC), USA. Rapamycin, which is used to prevent organ rejection after transplants…
