Mona Hosy, a student researcher, set out to explore one of biology’s biggest clichés: “Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell.” But what happens if these powerhouses stop working, especially at the very beginning of life? Using a special mouse model, she damaged mitochondrial DNA during embryo development. The results were striking—the embryos could not survive.

Proteins drive nearly every process within a cell.

Swardnadip Ghosh, graduate student from Dr Soumyashree Das's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences , Bengaluru, recieved The Carl Storm International Diversity Award by Gordon Research Conferences and The DMM Conference Travel Grant by Disease Models & Mechanisms journal by The Company of Biologists, for Participating in The Angiogenesis Gordon Research Conference at Newport, USA.

Welcome to Gender In/Of Science: Feminist Conversations Part 2, conceptualised by Prof. Gita Chadha, Sociologist and Obaid Siddiqi Chair 2023-24 at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, India. In this series, across seven episodes, we engage with six male faculty members at NCBS in conversations about the figure of the ‘man of science’.

In the animal kingdom, social hierarchies are everywhere - from hornets to hyenas to humans.

Effective communication between cells is fundamental to the success of multicell

Across the globe, the spread of human settlements has brought with it the rise of our most familia

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is no longer seen solely as a brain disorder affecting movement.