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    19 May 2020

    Using virtual reality to understand how insects fly

    “Insects are one of the very few groups of organisms that have evolved mastery of the skies, which is one of the major contributors to their immense diversity,” says Dr Shannon B. Olsson, Associate Professor at NCBS, who led the study.

     

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    20 May 2020

    First-ever study in India investigates a rare type of cancer caused by a virus

    In the first-ever study from India, researchers at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru and the Tata Memorial Hospital,

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    18 May 2020

    Azim Premji Foundation, NCBS, inStem ink partnership on enhanced testing for inStem

    The partnership would enable free-of-cost testing for COVID-19 to a large number of people from disadvantaged and marginalised communities, using NCBS-TIFR and inStem's high-capacity technical capabilities and skilled scientific personnel, an Azim Premji Foundation statement said.

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    18 May 2020

    Flight of the Indian honey bee

    With World Bee Day (May 20) round the corner, we look at what makes our indigenous foragers so special.

    Dr Axel Brockmann (NCBS) shares some information along with others in this article on Indian honey bees.

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    15 May 2020

    Bengaluru Scientists Create Textile Coating That Can Stop Coronavirus From Binding to Clothes

    "It is a germicidal coating which has shown resistance to the virus by neutralising bacteria or viruses when applied on fabrics. It neutralises anything that has a membrane, and all bacteria and a large number of viruses have membranes," said Prof Satyajit Mayor, Director at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) told CNN-News18.

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  • NCBS makes News
    31 May 2020

    A viper named Salazar

    At last, Salazar Slytherin has a snake named after him. A stunningly beautiful green pit viper with an “orange to reddish stripe running from the lower border of the eye” to the tip of its tail. The Salazar Pit Viper (Trimeresurus salazar) was found in the lowlands of western Arunachal Pradesh by Zeeshan A. Mirza, Harshal S. Bhosale, Pushkar U. Phansalkar, Mandar Sawant, Gaurang G. Gowande and Harshil Patel.

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    18 May 2020

    Azim Premji Foundation, NCBS, inStem ink partnership on enhanced testing for COVID-19

    PTI, MAY 18 2020, 15:56 ISTUPDATED: MAY 18 2020, 17:00 IST The Azim Premji Foundation, the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), and the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) said on Monday they have collaborated to augment testing infrastructure and facilities to deal with the COVID- 19 pandemic.

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  • NCBS makes News
    19 May 2020

    THESE INSECTS ARE ANNOYING, BUT THEY MIGHT JUST SAVE YOUR LIFE

    So, instead of chasing these flies through the lab all day, in a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doctoral researcher in the NICE group and first author on this study, Pavan Kaushik, tells Inverse they designed an entire virtual 3D world for just a single, small fly.

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    19 May 2020

    Scientists create video game to unlock how flies navigate

    "Nothing humans have created to date has the computational prowess to navigate the world like a tiny little fly.

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    19 May 2020

    Tiger’s hair to map ancestry

    Researchers at the Bengaluru-based NCBS have used hair shed by tigers to identify their family relationships.
     

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