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    19 May 2020

    Tiger Hair Used for Genome Sequencing Sheds Light on Two New Matrilineages in Ranthambore

    The study, published in Ecology and Evolution is co-authored by researchers at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru and senior forest officers of the Rajasthan Forest Department. The matrilineages were corroborated with the help of records of family trees maintained by the forest department.

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    19 May 2020

    Indian scientists identify family tree of tigers from shed hair

    “Collecting and sequencing the whole genome with shed hairs of tigers is something that has been done for the first time,” said Anubhab Khan, who led the study done by the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, in collaboration with the Rajasthan Forest Department and Medgenome Labs.

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  • NCBS makes News
    15 May 2020

    A decade of a project to document India's butterflies gets more ambitious

    Butterflies of India (IFoundButterflies.org), a website launched by Kunte in 2010, crowd-sources images to map and document butterflies in India.

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    14 May 2020

    Huge opportunity for India to step up vaccine production

    Speaking at a webinar on ‘Vaccines for the 21st century” organised by the CovidGyan as part of its WebGyan series on Thursday, Dr.Kang stressed the need to deeply understand immune responses against new vaccines to ensure that people were protected against increased future risk.

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  • NCBS makes News
    02 May 2020

    A protocol for pooled RT-PCR testing of COVID-19

    IIT Bombay researchers have developed an algorithm which can be used to help conduct pooled testing of samples for COVID-19. In order to validate this protocol – known as Tapestry Pooling – in vitro experiments using synthetic RNA and DNA fragments have been carried out by NCBS and inStem, Bengaluru, and Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, U.S. Further validation using clinical samples is under way.

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  • NCBS makes News
    08 May 2020

    Scientists use YouTube to reach vernacular audience

    “ADAAB, the whole world is gripped by coronavirus and most important in the fight against it is correct news and information,” Manal Shakeel, doing her PhD in Biology, tells her Urdu audience on YouTube. She is among the 15 researchers from National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, who are reaching out to the vernacular audience with information on the spread of Covid-19, while trying to dispel myths around it.

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  • NCBS makes News
    14 April 2020

    Have developed compound that has potential to kill virus: Researchers

    A team of scientists from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (InStem) and other research institutes in Bengaluru are developing new disinfection technology; efficient sampling and new pooled testing methods; and technologies to screen potential drugs to treat the virus.

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    23 April 2020

    B'luru-based US researcher studying anosmia, Covid-19 link

    "We have formed a group of more than 600 clinicians, neurobiologists, data scientists, cognitive scientists, sensory researchers, and technicians from 50 countries to develop a common voluntary survey to determine if loss or change of smell or taste is a reliable symptom to indicate (Covid-19) infection," Shannon B. Olsson, the city-based American researcher, told IANS.

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  • NCBS makes News
    04 May 2020

    Meet Salazar’s pit viper – a new snake species named after the parseltongue wizard

    The study, published in the journal Zoosytematics and Evolution, describes the new species of green pit viper,

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  • NCBS makes News
    04 May 2020

    Over 1mn Covid-19 tests carried out, says ICMR

    In other developments, young scientists of the National Centre For Biological Sciences (NCBS) have initiated a series of videos on social media to create awareness about Covid-19 in regional languages.
    Manal Shakeel, a

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