{"title":"COVID-19: Vaccines on Their Marks","authors":"Ekta Jagtiani, Darsh Vithlani","doi":"10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/162888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/162888","url":null,"abstract":"Vaccine-derived immunity is being optimistically heralded as the exit strategy to the pandemic, thereby enabling everyone to return to the much-awaited normal patterns of working, schooling, and socialising. The SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) respiratory virus was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Owing to the rampant spread of the virus there was an exigency that called for the development of a vaccine. In this review, we discuss what is currently known about the mechanism of action, efficacy, safety profile, clinical trials, and distribution of three of the most promising vaccine candidates; mRNA-1273 (Moderna), BNT162b2 (Pfizer/BioNtech), ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AstraZeneca/Oxford). In the race to come up with a safe and effective vaccine against the novel coronavirus, there are a myriad of factors that play a critical role throughout the development, clinical trials, manufacturing, distribution phases. An in-depth insight is given into the expected scope and the speculated limitations of the aforementioned vaccines.","PeriodicalId":306123,"journal":{"name":"The Bombay Technologist","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115313696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tanvi Karve, C. M. Mule, Rupesh S. Pawar, Meenal B. Rawlani
{"title":"Applications of Electroactive Polymers: Review","authors":"Tanvi Karve, C. M. Mule, Rupesh S. Pawar, Meenal B. Rawlani","doi":"10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/162890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/162890","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306123,"journal":{"name":"The Bombay Technologist","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128150582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID-19 Outbreak: An Overview","authors":"Ekta Jagtiani","doi":"10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/162887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/162887","url":null,"abstract":"Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by SARS-COV2, represents the causative agent of a potentially fatal disease that is of significant public health concern. The virus emerged from Wuhan, China, and resulted in a formidable outbreak affecting countries globally. Person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 infection led to the isolation of patients who were subsequently administered a variety of treatments. Extensive measures have been implemented to control the current outbreak. It is of paramount importance to be aware of the symptoms, precautionary steps, and modes of transmission of the infection. This review also highlights the various testing methods to detect the virus, its mechanism, and its effectiveness. Emphasis is also laid on a strategy adopted, contact tracing, whose effectiveness depends on the characteristics of both the pathogen and the response.","PeriodicalId":306123,"journal":{"name":"The Bombay Technologist","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133552067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent Advances in Microencapsulation Technology and their Applications","authors":"Arsalan Pasha, Shubham Utekar, Ritoban Ghosh","doi":"10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/160705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/160705","url":null,"abstract":"The microencapsulation process is essentially creating a barrier within the core and its wall materials. Microencapsulation provides us the solution to encapsulate materials like food ingredients, enzymes, cells, marine and vegetable oil like micrometric scale materials. Microencapsulation has a special type of capacity to improve thermostability, oxidative stability, shelf-life, and sensitivity towards the core material's temp-pressure. The encapsulation process includes various methods like emulsion polymerization, ionic gelation, spray drying, centrifugal extrusion, extrusion, and thermal gelation. This article describes an introduction about microencapsulation, methods/techniques used for encapsulation of core material, types of polymer and carrier used with their special imparting properties and application; as this technology is majorly applied in polymer, pharmaceuticals, oleochemicals, agricultural, foods, and textile industries. The most recent development in this technology is related to improvement in the controlled release of encapsulation with various physical as well as chemical processing conditions. This article gives information about microencapsulation to scientists and industries who are interested in current encapsulation technology and trying to improve some methods.","PeriodicalId":306123,"journal":{"name":"The Bombay Technologist","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116287142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saumya Saxena, Gurpreet Bharj, Mohammad Arsalan Pasha
{"title":"A Review Study on Advancements in the Recycling Methods of Polyethylene terephthalate","authors":"Saumya Saxena, Gurpreet Bharj, Mohammad Arsalan Pasha","doi":"10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/158738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/158738","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306123,"journal":{"name":"The Bombay Technologist","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121276403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review of Plant-and Fungi-Based Meat and Cellular Meat: An Indian Perspective","authors":"Harini Srikant","doi":"10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/165753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/165753","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306123,"journal":{"name":"The Bombay Technologist","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126898775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantum Computation - A Sign of Quantum Supremacy","authors":"Swareena Jain, R. Sehgal, R. Jayaram","doi":"10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/160704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36664/bt/2021/v68i1/160704","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306123,"journal":{"name":"The Bombay Technologist","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130235367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}