"Epilepsy is a chronic and non-communicable disorder of the brain. It is not a single disorder but a group of about 40 different neurological conditions. The most common type of epilepsy in adults is temporal lobe epilepsy ...

"The history of malaria can be traced with the history of mankind. In the Sushruta, a Sanskrit medical treatise (6th century BCE), the symptoms of malarial fever were described and attributed to the bites of certain ...

This chapter introduces the basic concepts of ordered chromatin organization, chromatin dynamics, epigenetics and histone post-translational modifications. The chapter includes a brief review on chromatin organization and ...

Post-translational modifications of proteins in cell bestow them with the ability to display multifaceted functional modalities. Presence or absence of certain chemical moieties on specific residues of proteins, with due ...

Inside a cell, there is constant synthesis and degradation of cytosolic components such as various proteins, organelles, supramolecular assemblies including cytoskeleton, ribosomes and intracellular vesicles. This dynamic ...

This chapter introduces the reader to the glutamine amidotransferase (GAT) family of enzymes. A brief overview of the reaction catalyzed by these enzymes and the highlights of functioning are presented. This is followed ...

HIV/AIDS is one of the worst pandemics the world has ever witnessed. With 2 million deaths occurring every year, the battle with HIV is far from over. Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) is highly effective, ...

When cells divide, each chromosome must replicate and segregate to maintain the appropriate chromosome number in the descendant daughter cells. In eukaryotes, two main types of nuclear divisions are called mitosis and ...

Gene encodes linear sequence of nucleotides that specify amino acids attached through peptide bond in a head to tail fashion. Christian B. Anfinson (1954) postulated that information for a protein to fold in a three-dimensional ...

Cell cycle is a set of intricate events that lead to the exact duplication of a cell into two daughter cells and its existence is vital for the propagation of life. To ensure the fidelity of this life preserving process, ...