by Team Spectrum Books | Jan 28, 2021 | Health and Medicine
The recent covid-19 pandemic has put emphasis on body’s immune system in fighting, the virus. In this scenario, India’s age old traditional medicines like Ayurveda has come to the limelight as a unique way to enhance the ability of human body to ward off the diseases....
by Team Spectrum Books | Jan 28, 2021 | Health and Medicine
In December 2020, COVID-19 Genonics UK (COG-UK) identified a new and potentially more infectious variant of the novel coronavirus. (COG-UK is a group of genomic experts that studies genome sequencing data from the UK and is the largest contributor to the global...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jan 3, 2021 | Health and Medicine
The year 2020 will be remembered for the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic all over the world. Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large group of viruses that cause a variety of illnesses ranging from the common cold to more serious diseases such as Middle East...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 1, 2020 | Health and Medicine
As reported on October 15, 2020, a scientific research study, published in the journal Soft Matter, states that a method to detect both viruses and antibodies has been developed by scientists from New York University, using holographic imaging. The researchers say...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 7, 2020 | Health and Medicine
A study by researchers from the Pune-based Maximum Containment Laboratory (MCL) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), published in July 2020 in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, found that two human serum samples out of 883, tested for the presence of...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 3, 2020 | Health and Medicine
A study, published in the journal Nature in October, 2020 revealed that the genetic coding passed on by the early Neanderthal predecessors can make the coronavirus in patients three times deadlier. Neanderthals are extinct species of human that was widely distributed...