The Indian IVD segment has witnessed significant developments and innovations in the last couple of decades. However, 50-60 years back, India did not have a robust enough healthcare manufacturing segment. The policies of those times favored trade liberalization and foreign direct investment. The absence of stringent regulations, quality control, negligible R&D, and the shortage of […]

Immunofluorescence microscopy (fluorescent antibody) was reported by Coons, Creech and Jones in 1941. In 1942, Coons and Kaplan reported that fluorescence dyes can be conjugated with antibodies. These labelled antibodies further used as probes to detect and locate antigen specific to this antibody. Coons and Kalpan in 1950 used Fluorescence microscopy for the first time. […]

Does the COVID-19 cytokine storm exist? Inflammatory proteins, also known as cytokines, play a crucial role in the immune reaction. If this immune response is too powerful, a phenomenon called”cytokine storm”, it can result in harm to the patient. It’s been believed that a cytokine storm contributes to disease severity in patients with COVID-19. Following […]

AMSBIO reports on the pioneering research published** by scientists at Stanford University Medical School that has cited Mimetix® aligned 3D cell culture scaffold supplied by the company to understand the architecture of the myelin sheaths which insulate neuronal axons, so they can transmit electrical impulses quickly and efficiently. Oligodendrocyte cells in the central nervous system can contact up […]

Until now it has been believed that in order for a tick to trigger an allergic immune response to alpha-gal in humans, the tick would need to have recently fed on the alpha-gal-rich blood of a mammal. New research from the UNC School of Medicine presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology […]