Down to Earth: Bangalore lab develops AI tool to map elusive protein interactions, opening doors for disease research

Dr Anjana Badrinarayanan, Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Official Announcement: https://www.ias.ac.in/application/Fellows_2025.pdf

Proteins are not always neatly folded molecular machines with a fixed shape that determines what they do inside

Arpitha Jayanth (Professor Mahesh Sankaran's Lab) and Sakshi Shigvan (Dr Dimple Notani's Lab), graduate students at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru have been selected this year for t

Dr Avik Kumar Pal, graduate student from Professor P.V. Shivaprasad's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), Bengaluru, was awarded the Zita Lobo Memorial Commendation for Best thesis in Biology 2024-2025 by the Tata Insititute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)

Dr Soumyashree Das, faculty at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, has been elected to the EMBO Global Investigator's Network.

The brain of any living organism, in general, is composed of millions of tiny cells called neurons.

Proteins are essential for life - from immune signalling to digestion, almost every biological process relies o

Dr Tapomoy Bhattacharjee, faculty member at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, has been el

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases, which takes a toll on over a million peo