Convalescent plasma: A promising old therapeutic approach
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an acute respiratory disease whose outbreak has been declared a pandemic, infected more than 1.2 million people worldwide, killed 69,498 and 2,65,883 were recovered (as of Apr 6, 2020).1 Any approved vaccines or therapies for COVID-19? As of now, there are no Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -approved vaccines or therapies […]
CRISPR: A Transformation in Human Therapeutics
What is CRISPR? CRISPR-Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a revolutionary gene editing tool whose efficacy and ease of use has already accelerated innovation across multiple diverse industries. Biologically speaking, it is defence mechanism utilized by the bacteria for invading pathogens, but recently researchers have repurposed this entire gene editing technology giving it a newer […]