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Dr. Raj Ladher is awarded the ‘Action on Hearing Loss’ UK Grant
The National Health Service and the Department for Health in UK set up a plan for “Action on Hearing Loss” in 2015, to address the growing problems of hearing loss which have significant economic, social and personal consequences. It is estimated that one in six people in the UK suffer from one or the other form of hearing loss and that amounts to nearly 11 million people!
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BLiSc Cluster organizes the Human Genetics and Disease Biology Meeting
The sequencing of human genome has raised much excitement about the possibility of understanding the blueprint of life. Further, the development of low-cost high-throughput DNA sequencing has facilitated the analysis of large numbers of human genomes and revealed the diversity in DNA sequence within and between human populations.
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Decoding how insects use visual and chemical cues to find food
Chemical ecologist Shannon Olsson and neuroscientist Karin Nordström employ 3-D printing and virtual reality to answer pressing questions about pollinators
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NCBS welcomes new faculty member: Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan
The National Centre for Biological Sciences is pleased to welcome Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan, who joins the Centre as its newest faculty member.
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Fibrosis and scleroderma: PAI-1 protein and the immune system
On World Scleroderma Day, Dr. Colin Jamora's work on Fibrosis and Scleroderma-like illness was highlighted in Italian press
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The scent of a man: what odors do female blackbuck find enticing in a male?
It is midday in mid-April, and the air shimmers with heat. From the shelter of an acacia tree, one of the few spots of shade in the flat, slightly undulating land, a small group of scientists intently observe a congregation of male blackbuck sitting or standing somnolently atop its own pile of odoriferous dung.
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How insects evolve immune-memory against bacterial infections
For long, it has been a point of debate whether insects have an immune-memory
Much like humans, insects too develop an immune-memory in response to infection, a team at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru has found.
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Science communication
In a series of initiatives, The Bangalore Life Science Cluster takes science out of the confines of university to the public.
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Scientists in Bengaluru have joined hands to expand the science vocabulary of Tamil and Kannada
Mandram, an organisation formed last September to facilitate “sharing of great ideas” in local languages, mainly Tamil, had collaborated with the Bangalore Life Sciences Cluster, a set of three research institutions that share a campus, to organise a lecture series on science in Tamil and Kannada.
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AT BLiSC, Science no longer speaks only English
Today science has become more monoglot than ever, with English assuming near universal dominance. And yet, not very long ago, Newton wrote Principia Mathematica in Latin, Einstein communicated his first influential papers in German and a large extent of Marie Curie’s work was published in French. Communication in English is valuable, as it sets a dais for scientific interactions across the globe and more importantly, prevents varied interpretations of scientific text.