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  • NCBS makes News
    03 May 2018

    Mind Game: Understanding brain power

    “As you understand the fundamentals of brain function, you can better recognise signs of dysfunction.

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  • NCBS makes News
    01 May 2018

    Five species of cicadas identified from Aarey Colony

    Researchers, including Kiran Marathe from NCBS, identify five species of cicada insects from Aarey Milk Colony, Mumbai

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  • Community
    26 April 2018

    Nothing “alternative” about careers beyond academia

         An increasing number of PhDs now question the wisdom of jumping headlong into a postdoc (the autopilot postdoc). For most, this dilemma is a result of fewer tenured positions, remunerations (or the lack of thereof), and the fear of irrelevancy to society at large due to a constricted research focus.

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  • Research Explained
    20 April 2018

    An integrated approach to understanding mental illnesses: doctors & scientists collaborate to study neuropsychiatric disorders

    With nearly 2 –3% of the population of youngsters and adults (between the ages of 15–59 years) at risk of developing neuropsychiatric diseases, India needs to focus on understanding mental disorders.

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  • Research Explained
    17 April 2018

    Active Evolvable Matter Lab Receives HFSP 2018 Young Investigator Research Grant

    Prof. Shashi Thutupalli, head of the Active Evolvable Matter Laboratory at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore has received a 2018 Young Investigator Research Grant from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).

    The prestigious three-year funding is intended to establish new collaborative ties with scientists around the world and empower these teams to combine their expertise in addressing fundamental questions.

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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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