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THESE INSECTS ARE ANNOYING, BUT THEY MIGHT JUST SAVE YOUR LIFE
So, instead of chasing these flies through the lab all day, in a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doctoral researcher in the NICE group and first author on this study, Pavan Kaushik, tells Inverse they designed an entire virtual 3D world for just a single, small fly.
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Scientists create video game to unlock how flies navigate
"Nothing humans have created to date has the computational prowess to navigate the world like a tiny little fly.
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Tiger’s hair to map ancestry
Researchers at the Bengaluru-based NCBS have used hair shed by tigers to identify their family relationships.
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Tiger Hair Used for Genome Sequencing Sheds Light on Two New Matrilineages in Ranthambore
The study, published in Ecology and Evolution is co-authored by researchers at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru and senior forest officers of the Rajasthan Forest Department. The matrilineages were corroborated with the help of records of family trees maintained by the forest department.
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Indian scientists identify family tree of tigers from shed hair
“Collecting and sequencing the whole genome with shed hairs of tigers is something that has been done for the first time,” said Anubhab Khan, who led the study done by the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, in collaboration with the Rajasthan Forest Department and Medgenome Labs.
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Insect virtual reality: What it’s really like to be the fly on the wall
If you’ve ever tried to swat a fly, you know how hard it is to follow its movements as it ducks and weaves around to escape. You can easily appreciate that a scientist trying to observe and understand the behavior of insects in the natural world has their work cut out.
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A decade of a project to document India's butterflies gets more ambitious
Butterflies of India (IFoundButterflies.org), a website launched by Kunte in 2010, crowd-sources images to map and document butterflies in India.
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Molecular route to bacterial evolution
“The world will not be inherited by the strongest; it will be inherited by those most able to change.”
This quote by evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin is quite appreciable in the microscopic world of bacteria and viruses.
Bacteria, in the natural world are swamped by a myriad of environmental stressors. Changes at the genetic level often beget bacterial adaptations to these challenges, helping them find a fine balance between growth and stress tolerance.
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Huge opportunity for India to step up vaccine production
Speaking at a webinar on ‘Vaccines for the 21st century” organised by the CovidGyan as part of its WebGyan series on Thursday, Dr.Kang stressed the need to deeply understand immune responses against new vaccines to ensure that people were protected against increased future risk.
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‘Vaccines for the 21st century’: Webinar by Prof. Gagandeep Kang
A webinar on “Vaccines for the 21st century” by Prof. Gagandeep Kang (clinical scientist and executive director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad) was organised on May 14, 2020 by COVIDGyan as a part of its “WebGyan” series. Prof. Kang is the first Indian woman scientist to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. She has worked on vaccines for rotavirus infections and enteric diseases such as cholera and typhoid.
