Biology Is Love

ASTRAZENECA - A HOPE FOR COVID 19 VACCINE - Souti Das  ASTRAZENECA Do you know that it is not the name of the vaccine ; it is the company sponsored behind the vaccine design. Okay let‟s get into this. The company was founded in 1999 (6th April 1999) through the merger of the Swedish Astra AB (formed in mid 1890s) and the British Zeneca (formed in 1993) Group. Current CEO-   Pascal Soriot (1st Oct 2012- present)  Chairperson-   Leif Johansson Today, AstraZeneca is working actively over 100 different countries and employs over 57,200 people – 46% in Europe, 31% in the Americas and 23% in Asia-Pacific. Its mission is “ to make a meaningful difference to patient health through great medicines that bring benefit for patients and add value for our stakeholders and society ”  In 2010 AstraZeneca realized the market need that they should make bold changes to increase „success factor‟ by in-depth R&D result. As a result, they launched the „5R framework‟, which based upon quality over qua

 COVID-19 - Eishika Das,  -Soumyaprabha Ganguly HISTORY:  Coronavirus disease 2019  ( COVID-19 ) is an  infectious disease  caused by  severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2  (SARS-CoV-2) The disease was first identified in 2019 in  Wuhan , the capital of  Hubei , China, and has since spread globally, resulting in the  2019–20 coronavirus pandemic . According to the World Health Organization (WHO), viral diseases continue to emerge and represent a serious issue to public health. In the last twenty years, several viral epidemics such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2002 to 2003 beginning in China and involving two dozen countries with approximately 8000 cases and 800 deaths , and H1N1 influenza in 2009, have been recorded. Most recently, the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012 approximately 2,500 cases and 800 deaths . In a timeline that reaches the present day, an epidemic o