Biotechnology

History of Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT)?                     The concept if this therapy dates back more than a century, when similar treatments were used during Plague, Spanish flu, Diphtheria outbreak and recently in Ebola virus too. What is CPT?                       The idea behind this theory is that immunity can be transferred from a healthy person to a sick person via “Convalescent Plasma”. Convalescent plasma refers to plasma of a recovered COVID-19 patient. In simple words antibodies from a recovered COVID-19 patient are obtained and are provided to a sick person. How CPT works?                        In this therapy, blood from a recovered COVID-19 patient is taken and the serum is separated and screened for virus neutralizing antibodies or antibodies against Corona virus. When any di...

What is Hydroxychloroquine?                     It is a Disease Modifying Anti Rheumatic Drug (DMARD).We all have been coming across this name after the outbreak of COVID-19.Basically Hydroxychloroquine (HCOS) is a prescribed medicine for Malaria and other autoimmune diseases like Rheumatoid arthritis and is now used to treat COVID-19. Why do we use HCOS against Corona virus?                     There are couple of reasons to use it:- ·          A promising lab research have conducted an experiment in which they grew animal cells by animal tissue culture technique and infected them with Corona virus. After infecting, they treated the cells with HCOS and they found out that it blocked corona virus from invading the cells ·          In China and France doctors have experimented that if HCOS i...

What is Corona Virus?                                             Corona virus is a virus which is outspreading a pandemic i.e., COVID-19.Basically COVID-19 is a respiratory disease in which the lungs are affected the most. The name "CORONA" is given to the virus because of its crown like appearance and in Latin language "CORONA" means "CROWN". As the virus has spikes all over its surface which are made up of Glycoprotein which give it a crown like appearance. The classification of virus is as follows: Kingdom - Virus. Phylum - RNA viruses. Order - Positive ssRNA Nidovirales. Family - Coronaviridae. Genus - Corona virus.                        The size of virus ranges from 80-160nm and the molecular weight of its genome is 90 lakh daltons. Symptoms of COVID-19         ...