Kombucha has received significant attention over last few years and has become an increasingly popular beverage with purported health-promoting properties. Kombucha is a traditional fermented…
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The collaboration between spectroscopists and astrophysicists initiated in the 18th century with the purpose of assigning the Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum to atomic…
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Over the course of evolution, plants have developed a broad spectrum of defense mechanisms against herbivorous insects to protect themselves and ensure their survival and…
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Type-1 diabetes is a genetic disease which develops as a result of auto-immunity against insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Essentially immune cells, which are designed…
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High-latitude coastal regions are increasingly suffering the effects of human pressure, either from local activities or as a result of global-scale effects. Demographic expansion, resource…
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Cancer is a group of 200 diseases responsible for the death of millions of lives every year. Cancer can be treated and cured with significant…
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For all animals, reproduction entails an investment of time and energy. Among humans, lactation (i.e., breastfeeding) is, perhaps surprisingly, the most metabolically expensive phase of…
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Climate change research has experienced bourgeoning popularity over the past two decades or so, and ecophysiology is one such field where this is no exception….
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Even though the biosphere is primarily microbial, most of the microbial world is still terra incognita. But that’s changing. Metagenomics and microbiomics – sequencing-based tallies…
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For now, there are trillion galaxies to be observed. These galaxies are classified into the spiral galaxy, elliptical galaxy, and irregular galaxy by their morphology….
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Cyanobacteria are prokaryotic, autotrophic organisms which, developing in mass, create water blooms. Increasing temperature due to global warming and anthropogenic eutrophication are factors considered to…
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