Monica Noronha

Sardar Patel University · Department of Bio Sciences

Malaria is known to cause around 1 million deaths per annum. This life-threatening disease is mostly prevalent in Africa. Due to the burgeoning problem of drug resistance, it is getting very difficult to treat patients suffering from this disease. No vaccine has yet been developed for malaria because the parasite keeps changing the interaction of t...

Objective: To evaluate the antiplasmodial activity of aqueous-methanolic plant extracts of nine plant species selected, based on ethnobotanical data. Methods: Based on ethnobotanical database, the selected plants were tested for their antiplasmodial activity against chloroquine-sensitive (3D7) strain of Plasmodium falciparum. Qualitative tests and...

Energy security, climate change, and economic development are the driving forces behind the increasing focus on biofuel production worldwide. Lignocellulose can provide ample raw materials for biofuel production, via its hydrolysis and the fermentation of the released sugars. Currently, lignocellulases are often used to catalyze this step, which hy...

The concerns about energy and environment have encouraged governmental policies and scientific communities to develop novel approaches for the synthesis of biofuels. As economic growth is directly proportional to these scientific advancements, strategies for efficient utilization of readily available feedstock are grabbing extensive industrial atte...