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Black tea bioactives have the potential to inhibit multiple targets of SARS-CoV-2, says Indian scientists

Black tea bioactives have the potential to inhibit multiple targets of SARS-CoV-2, says Indian scientists © Provided by The Times of India GUWAHATI: After China and Taiwan, scientists at the world’s oldest tea research centre, Tocklai Tea Research Institute of the Tea Research Association India in upper Assam’s Jorhat district, have proved the inhibitory potential of tea bioactives against SARS-CoV-2. Their latest study on virtual screening and molecular dynamics simulation, published in the ‘Journal of Biomolecular Science & Dynamics’, showed that tea bioactive compounds, Theaflavin-3,3’-digallate, Procyanidin B2 and Theaflavin-3-gallate, found in black tea, have the potential to act as inhibitors of multiple targets of SARS-CoV-2 - RdRp, 3CLpro and PLpro proteins respectively, compared to known antiviral drugs.

AgNext — cultivating tech to analyse farm produce quality in 30 seconds!

AgNext cultivating tech to analyse farm produce quality in 30 seconds! January 24, 2021 Taranjeet Singh Bhamra, founder and CEO of AgNext× Start-up hopes to revolutionise food testing with an ‘MRI-like scanner’ Among the many problems that beset Indian agriculture is the absence of quality standards in the proverbial farm-to-fork food chain. While matters of productivity and better market access for farmers often get precedence, the lack of standards disincentivises innovative farmers who try to produce qualitatively better food and takes away from the consumer the option of buying better. Even globally, ascertaining the quality of farm produce is a largely subjective exercise, often involving conjecture. Usually, farm commodities are put though physical parameter tests using touch-and-feel, visual appeal, smell and taste. As a result, the ability of farmers who grow higher quality, or pesticide and chemical-free produce, to command a premium is rather limited.

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