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    17 June 2020

    Behind the scenes of the BLiSC testing effort: About our contributors

    The COVID-19 pandemic is upon us! The nation has been through prolonged lockdowns, yet the rising case numbers have kept up the relentless demand on testing.

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  • Research Explained
    15 June 2020

    Tuberculosis: A mutiny against mycobacteria

    Tuberculosis (TB), popularly known as the White Plague, is one of the world’s deadliest infections. ‘Consuming’ millions of lives, the disease owes its success to the fervent microbe, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) that has been using every trick under its sleeve to outwit the host. Consequently, an understanding of host-microbe interactions has been of paramount importance to combat TB.

    Dr. Varadharajan Sundaramurthy and his team of researchers from the National Centre for Biological Sciences have been making significant progress in this front.

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  • NCBS makes News
    11 June 2020

    A damselfly’s colours have more to them than adding to the looks

    In the study, published in the journal Ecological Entomology, Shantanu Joshi and Dr.

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  • NCBS makes News
    11 January 2020

    NCBS Archives tells stories of how science blossomed here

    Letters, photographs, old instruments and notebooks are among 50,000 objects at the Archives.
     
    December 4, 1987: In just about legible cursive handwriting, Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick writes a letter to Obaid Siddiqi, professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, apologising for failing to come and meet him in Mumbai. Now the letter lies carefully placed in a paper file, inside a small cardboard box, in a steel locker at the Archives of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru.
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  • NCBS makes News
    21 May 2020

    Scientists use virtual reality to know how insects find objects

    Arguing that little is known about how insects combine different sensory stimuli to find and get to objects of their interest given their size and agility, a team of researchers from National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bengaluru has created a virtual reality

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  • NCBS makes News
    06 June 2020

    Researchers Find Three New Gecko Species In Western Ghats

    The three new species were discovered in granite boulder habitats on the southern edge of the Mysore plateau by a team including which comprised of scientists from the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Thackeray Wildlife Foundation and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore.

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  • NCBS makes News
    19 May 2020

    Using virtual reality to understand how insects fly

    “Insects are one of the very few groups of organisms that have evolved mastery of the skies, which is one of the major contributors to their immense diversity,” says Dr Shannon B. Olsson, Associate Professor at NCBS, who led the study.

     

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  • NCBS makes News
    20 May 2020

    First-ever study in India investigates a rare type of cancer caused by a virus

    In the first-ever study from India, researchers at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru and the Tata Memorial Hospital,

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  • NCBS makes News
    18 May 2020

    Azim Premji Foundation, NCBS, inStem ink partnership on enhanced testing for inStem

    The partnership would enable free-of-cost testing for COVID-19 to a large number of people from disadvantaged and marginalised communities, using NCBS-TIFR and inStem's high-capacity technical capabilities and skilled scientific personnel, an Azim Premji Foundation statement said.

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  • NCBS makes News
    18 May 2020

    Flight of the Indian honey bee

    With World Bee Day (May 20) round the corner, we look at what makes our indigenous foragers so special.

    Dr Axel Brockmann (NCBS) shares some information along with others in this article on Indian honey bees.

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