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Shifting the Balance
How mutation spectra reversals increase the odds of evolutionary success
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Alternative fuel for string-shaped motors in cells
Researchers from Bangalore and Dresden discover a unique two-component molecular motor that uses a kind of renewable chemical energy to pull vesicles toward membrane-bound organelles. -
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. -
THE ART OF SUBTERFUGE
HOW BUTTERFLY COMMUNITIES EVOLVE INTO A GAME OF WARNING AND DECEIPT!
Students from Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte's Biodiversity Lab have discovered some secrets of a long evolutionary game through which butterflies come to warn, fool and escape their predators using traits such as wing colour patterns and flight
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Yeast, vesicles and genome duplication – A model for understanding eukaryotic evolution
Researchers at NCBS gain key insights into the role of whole genome duplication in the evolution of the vesicle trafficking system
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New hypothesis for evolution of different species!
Rate of brain development and changes in neurochemicals can lead to the formation of new species.
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Rare Disease Day 2022 - In conversation with Prof. Raghu Padinjat
On the Rare Disease Day, we approached Prof. Raghu Padinjat, Cell biologist, Dean Research, NCBS-TIFR, to learn about his work on using stem cells to understand Lowe Syndrome.
