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Dr. Salil Sukumaran of ADBS Program Receives the Prestigious Hugh Gurling Award in World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG), 2020
The Google search for ‘bipolar disorder’ usually shows us the result as ‘this is a mental illness marked by extreme shifts in mood’, and that ‘the exact cause is not known but is believed to be a combination of genetics, and altered brain structure…’ But why or how is
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Loss of smell, taste clear clue to COVID
Read about the global survey on the loss of sense of smell and taste in people with COVID-19. Dr. Shannon Olsson is part of the consortium studying this.
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Bengaluru lab discovers Sensei, an iron-sensing RNA
A lab at the city-based NCBS has discovered iron-sensing RNAs called Sensei.
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Scientists find commonality in bees’ famed 'Waggle Dance'
New research by a lab run by Dr Axel Brockmann at NCBS shows that in spite of differences in the behaviour of the dancer, the bees following this dance observe the dancer from identical vantage points and respond to the information with similar behaviours.
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The honey bee dance: Different moves, one message
It is early in the morning. Ebi and his colleagues try not to twitch as they stare intently at a rectangular box filled with sugary treats. These aren’t for them, but for the honey bees that they study. The tiny buzzers toggle between the sugar ‘feeder’ and the hive, which are a few metres apart. Interestingly, the bees that visit the feeder aren’t secretive about this new found food source. They graciously advertise its location to their nest mates and over time more bees are seen buzzing to the feeder.
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NCBS welcomes new faculty member: Soumyashree Das
The National Centre for Biological Sciences is delighted to welcome Soumyashree Das, who joins the NCBS as its newest faculty member.
Soumya’s work is in basic cardiovascular research. She seeks to answer some of the outstanding questions in the field of coronary heart disease-a leading cause of adult mortality in India and worldwide.
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How Seven Indian Labs Coped With the Immediate Aftermath of a Global Health Crisis
“Our work is completely in vivo, which means we need our mice to do our experiments. All experiments have come to a sudden pause and work is greatly affected.
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3 new damselfly species discovered in Western Ghats in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka
The findings by Shantanu Joshi and Krusnamegh Kunte from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, KA Subramanian and R Babu from Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Chennai, and Dattarprasad Sawant from KEM Hospital, Mumbai, were published in the international taxonomic journal Zootaxa on Wednesday.
