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Workshop on endangered ‘Snow Leopard Population Assessment in J&K" inaugurated
A workshop organised on snow leopards included training from experts at IME, NDF, JU, WWF, NCF, and NCBS.
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Knowing the ways of the coffee white stem borer
Prof. Olsson and a team of researchers have been studying the coffee white stem borer. Their aim is to study the insect and the way it approaches various plants and its response to plant volatiles so that a ecologically derived management strategy can be worked out. According to her, historically, it has been noted that the beetle attacks only arabica unless the area is heavily infested. However, recent studies by the team, published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, have shown that this is not because the beetle is more attracted to one variety than the other.
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Less-sensitive rapid antigen tests too can yield good results, says a new study
Using computational models, an Indian research team has showed the amount of testing mattered more than the sensitivity of the tests used
The paper authored by Philip Cherian and Gautam Menon of Ashoka University and Sandeep Krishna of NCBS appeared in the journal PLoS Computational Biology on Thursday.
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What Does Big Data Have to Do With Wildlife Conservation?
All mammals, for example harbour between 2 to 3.5 billion bits of data in every one of their cells.
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Newly described scorpion species from Western Ghats highlight need for more research and conservation
Since March 2020, scientists from the Institute of Natural History Education and Research (INHER), Pune have described seven new species of scorpions from the Western Ghats – six from the Sahyadris in Maharashtra and one from the southern Western Ghats near Bengaluru.
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‘Bad science’: Planting frenzy misses the grasslands for the trees
In this article on, ‘Bad science’: Planting frenzy misses the grasslands for the trees, the writer refers to work from Jayashree Ratnam, Mahesh Sankaran and colleagues on tropical savannahs.
Read the article: https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/bad-science-planting-frenzy-misses-the...
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Mistakes in protein synthesis can lead to phenotypic diversity
Dr. Laasya Samhita’s interview with Bio Patrika hosting “Vigyan Patrika”, a series of author interviews. Dr. Laasya is postdoc and DBT/Wellcome Trust early career fellow with Dr. Deepa Agashe, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. As an independent postdoctoral fellow, she works in an Evolutionary Biology laboratory and blends molecular biology with evolution, investigating how errors in protein synthesis can influence bacterial adaptation, and even turn out to be good for the cell.
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Calcium sensor STIM1 regulates gene expression and synaptic connectivity of Purkinje neurons
Sreeja Kumari Dhanya’s interview with Bio Patrika hosting “Vigyan Patrika”, a series of author interviews. Dhanya is a Ph.D. student working under the guidance of Prof. Gaiti Hasan in National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore. She completed her master’s in Medical Biotechnology from Manipal School of Life Sciences (MSLS) at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal.