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  • NCBS makes News
    02 October 2020

    3 new damselfly species discovered in Western Ghats in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka

    The findings by Shantanu Joshi and Krusnamegh Kunte from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, KA Subramanian and R Babu from Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Chennai, and Dattarprasad Sawant from KEM Hospital, Mumbai, were published in the international taxonomic journal Zootaxa on Wednesday.

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  • NCBS makes News
    07 October 2020

    Scientists identify a gene that could help increase rice productivity

    In a new study, a team of scientists led by Dr. P.V. Shivaprasad has shown that a previously unknown AGO named AGO17 is essential for the growth of panicles that hold rice grains. When the researchers expressed it at higher levels in plants, they got plants with longer panicles and more yield. On the other hand, plants had poor growth if they removed this gene by knockdown strategies.

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  • NCBS makes News
    27 September 2020

    CSIR Announces Awardees of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for 2020

    CSIR Announces Awardees of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for 2020

    In the area of Biological Sciences, the coveted award has been bagged by Subhadeep Chatterjee from the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad and Vatsala Thirumalai from the National Centre for Biological Sciences.

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  • NCBS makes News
    19 September 2020

    Scrolling through the leaves of history

    A research-based narrative podcast that brings together science, health and culture

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  • NCBS makes News
    09 September 2020

    The wings of diversity

    When NCBS scientists Krushnamegh Kunte and Vaishali Bhaumik explored the movement pattern of butterflies – a species they studied for years – they discovered how such contrasting movement patterns influenced the reproductive characteristics of the winged insects.

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  • NCBS makes News
    11 September 2020

    A vote for India’s national butterfly

    A first-of-its kind online public campaign is underway to choose from a list of seven winged wonders nominated by experts. The butterfly poll will end on October 7.

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  • NCBS makes News
    26 August 2020

    A tale of two moth species from Tale

    Guwahati, August 26: A group of butterfly and moth researchers has described a new moth speci

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  • NCBS makes News
    11 August 2020

    Pollution stings Bengaluru’s bees in the heart

    Bees found in city’s polluted areas have irregular heart beat and poor immunity. 
    Scientists from the Bangalore Life Science Cluster have found that the Giant Asian honey bee (Apis dorsata) from more pollut

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  • NCBS makes News
    11 August 2020

    Air pollution killing giant Asian honey bees: Study

    A first-of-its-kind quantitative analysis on the impacts of air pollution on insects by the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru indicates a decline in India’s insect population, including giant Asian honey bee.

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  • NCBS makes News
    08 August 2020

    Studying P. vivax malaria

    Mosquitoes inject the sporozoite (spore-like) stage of the parasite into the skin when they bite, and the sporozoites travel to the liver. “Imagine some 50 parasites enter our liver, each infect one liver cell or hepatocyte and multiply enormously to 10,000 or more.

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