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  • NCBS makes News
    11 April 2018

    Land degradation is affecting two-fifths of humanity

    The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), in its recently-published assessment report, has concluded that land degradation has reached the point where it has become a major contributor to mass human migration and increased conflict.

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  • Research Explained
    05 April 2018

    NCBS Evolutionary Biologists Win American Society of Naturalists 2018 Presidential Award

    The American Society of Naturalists (ASN) conferred its prestigious 2018 Presidential Award to evolutionary biologists from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, based in Bangalore, India. The ASN Presidential Award honors an outstanding research article from among all the papers published in the society’s journal, The American Naturalist, in the preceding calendar year. ‘Am. Nat.’ is a prominent scientific journal that publishes research papers in frontier areas of evolutionary biology and ecology.

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  • Community
    04 April 2018

    8th Annual Science Journalism Workshop

    NCBS announces its 8th Annual Science Journalism Workshop, which will be held on campus from 

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  • NCBS makes News
    27 March 2018

    Prof K VijayRaghavan appointed Principal Scientific Advisor to the GoI

    On Monday 26th March 2018, one of the most illustrious biologists in India, K VijayRaghavan was appointed Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the Government of India.

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  • Research Explained
    08 March 2018

    A new twist to an old story of cellular signalling in the eye of a fly

    The eye of the fly

    Is wondrous indeed,

    For capturing images

    At uncanny speeds.

    The molecular signal

    That makes this possible,

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  • Research Explained
    05 March 2018

    For flour beetles, it’s better to be a woman in a man’s world

    Recent work from Deepa Agashe’s and Radhika Venkatesan’s groups has shown that female red flour beetles reproduce better in male-dominated groups than in unbiased or female-dominated groups.

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  • Research Explained
    02 January 2018

    Of Bugs and Beetles: 
Deadly bacteria select for immune memory in beetles

    We live in a world dominated by microbes, and most organisms have had to evolve strategies to deal with both, beneficial and pathogenic microbes. For humans as well as the animals we have domesticated, vaccination is by far the most popular and effective strategy against many pathogenic microbes. Vaccination relies on immune memory: on first exposure to a pathogen, our adaptive immune system generates specific antibodies, protecting against re-infection by the same pathogen.

     

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  • NCBS makes News
    30 September 2017

    Super smell strength of solitary bees

    Super smell strength of solitary bees

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  • Research Explained
    04 December 2017

    SCIENCE GALLERY INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES DIRECTOR FOR GALLERY IN BENGALURU

    Dublin/Bengaluru, 27th November 2017— Science Gallery International (SGI) today announced the appointment of Dr Jahnavi Phalkey as the Founding Director of Science Gallery Bengaluru.

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  • Research Explained
    28 November 2017

    Laws of attraction: hoverfly pollinators use multiple cues to identify flowers across continents

    You and I live in a sensory world—sight, sound, touch and taste blend to give us a sense of our surroundings. However, imagine perceiving the world as a fly, with a brain the size of a pinhead. Yet many insects with miniscule brains manage to do exactly what we do—identify objects like a flower, or a plant.

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