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A Bengaluru group is knee-deep in wastewater—looking for secrets on future diseases
Ecologist Farah Ishtiaq and her team are tracking viruses and diseases through Bangalore's underbelly. Their wastewater-based epidemiology project is catching attention.
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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the first non-biology collection at the NCBS, documents related to Sastry that were donated by his family members have been archived and made public on March 15.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.
