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Model Scientist: Statistical physicist who helps biologists understand life at a deep level
Rao is a professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bengaluru. Using equations and concepts of physics, he is trying to figure out what makes life tick.
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Exploring Expressions In Nature : Dhara Mehrotra
Delhi based artist Dhara Mehrotra’s solo art installation 'Through Clusters & Networks... is the product of the Artist-in-Residence outreach program at NCBS-TIFR, and offers a closer look at how fungi and plants communicate with each other via a “Wood Wide Web”
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A New Science Archives Preserves the Ways of Seeing Science's People
The curators of an art installation at the venue hope the exhibit will "de-science" science.
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NCBS opens first of its kind archive in Bangalore
In a move that will probably make the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) founder Obaid Siddiqi elated, the institute has set up an archive for contemporary biology in India in the space that used to be his old lab.
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History of biological research in museum
The Archives, an informal museum of sorts that records the history of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and contemporary biology research in the country, was inaugurated on Monday.
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How your immune system uses chaos to prevent disease
New research, appearing in the journal Nature Communications, reveals a new mechanism that is at play in cellular function.
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How the fruit fly experiences bitter taste
A team of researchers from National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bengaluru (NCBS-TIFR), have figured out the neuronal circuitry that is involved in processing bitter taste.
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A Bengaluru artist shows how plants talk to each other through the internet of fungus
The installation is one among the seven exhibits in artist Dhara Mehrotra’s latest exhibition, Through Clusters and Networks: The Wood-wide Web and Other Stories. Part of the Artist in Residence Outreach Programme at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, the exhibition explores the intersection of art, science and technology.
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A window into the mind: discovering how antipsychotic drugs affect the brain
Researchers from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, have developed a mouse model for detecting cells that respond to antipsychotic drugs in live brain tissues. Using this, the team have also discovered that the antipsychotics Clozapine and Olanzapine affect ependymal cells—a class of brain cells responsible for producing cerebrospinal fluid—previously unknown to be affected by antipsychotics.
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Flies release neuronal brakes to fly longer
For insects, flying is a swift way of getting around to find food, identify a mate and escape unfavourable conditions. While muscles provide the power for flying, it is the brain that coordinates strategic planning. For a hungry fly, this could mean using its powerful olfaction to sense the presence of food such as a rotten banana and then navigating the distance to reach it, which may require flying for several minutes or even an hour or more. How does the insect brain coordinate the timing for such long flight bouts?