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One Health Bengaluru City Consortium launched
One Health is a multi-sectoral approach that takes into consideration human, animal, environmental health and the interconnectivity and interdependence of these three elements.
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JNTBGRI researchers unravel the mystery behind the ‘shooting’ droplets from Theepacha
A recent study suggests the source of the droplets is not the liana as is commonly believed, but the Aloka depressa, a leafhopper that feeds on sap from the kidney-shaped leaves of its host.
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Life and work of physicist T S G Sastry archived at National Centre for Biological Science
Said to be the first non-biology collection at the NCBS, documents related to Sastry that were donated by his family members have been archived and made public on March 15.
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MP national park gets 2 tigers in big cat revival efforts
Madhya Pradesh national park that last housed a tiger a decade ago, on Friday received two adult tigers from nearby forests as the Union environment ministry is making an effort to repopulate the central Indian forest with tigers aiming to create a c...
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Growing, fast and slow
Why are there so many tRNA and rRNA copies in bacterial genomes?Parth K Raval, Wing Yui Ngan, Jenna Gallie and Deepa Agashe look at the fitness costs and benefits of redundancy in the bacterial translation machinery in their latest paper published in eLife journal. -
LS Shashidhara, brilliant geneticist and NCBS director, puts science next to social welfare
Shashidhara wants to focus on applied and translational research in collaboration with multiple institutes to ensure a tangible outcome of immediate utility.
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Minimising human disturbance crucial to protect bears outside wildlife reserves: study
A new study has found that maintaining forest cover and preventing fragmentation of habitats while minimising human disturbance is crucial for long-term conservation of bears outside protected wildlife reserves across India.
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Early worm gets new genes: C elegans Facility
Caenorhabditis elegans are tiny free-living nematodes that live in soil. A large number of scientists have taken fancy to these worms as model organisms owing to their simple genome, tiny size, ease of growing and transparent body.