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Coronavirus outbreak: Another scientist-led effort to bust myth
Scientists from the Indian Institute of Science, Tata Memorial Centre, Bangalore Life Science Cluster, IndiaBiosciene and Vigyan Prasar have teamed up in this multi-lingual communication exercise.
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Bangalore Life Sciences Cluster to start COVID-19 research
The Bangalore Life Sciences Cluster (BLiSC) has announced that it will soon start proposing projects intended to achieve an immediate and medium-term response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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BLiSC COVID-19 response: Well-being of the community
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the BLiSC community has been working toward ensuring everyone on campus has the support they require to remain healthy and protected from the mental health challenges that come with this unusual period in our history. There are multiple efforts by individuals and groups, to put in place short-term and long-term systems for assisting the community.
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Some Animals Have No Microbiome. Here’s What That Tells Us.
Deepa Agashe, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist at the National Center for Biolo
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Mistakes can be good
Mistakes are rarely rewarded. Intuitively, one would imagine that a shoddy typist at an office who keeps generating typos would either quickly lose their job, or at least be overlooked for promotion. The idea that this person could in fact benefit from being shoddy and rise above others professionally is counter intuitive, and yet we see this in cells! Like humans, cells too constantly make mistakes. Most of the work within cells is carried out by biomolecules called proteins; without these, cells would not exist.
