Using computational models, an Indian research team has showed the amount of testing mattered more than the sensitivity of the tests used

The paper authored by Philip Cherian and Gautam Menon of Ashoka University and Sandeep Krishna of NCBS appeared in the journal PLoS Computational Biology on Thursday.

All mammals, for example harbour between 2 to 3.5 billion bits of data in every one of their cells.

Since March 2020, scientists from the Institute of Natural History Education and Research (INHER), Pune have described seven new species of scorpions from the Western Ghats – six from the Sahyadris in Maharashtra and one from the southern Western Ghats near Bengaluru.

In this article on, ‘Bad science’: Planting frenzy misses the grasslands for the trees, the writer refers to work from Jayashree Ratnam, Mahesh Sankaran and colleagues on tropical savannahs. 

Read the article: https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/bad-science-planting-frenzy-misses-the...

Dr. Laasya Samhita’s interview with Bio Patrika hosting “Vigyan Patrika”, a series of author interviews. Dr. Laasya is postdoc and DBT/Wellcome Trust early career fellow with Dr. Deepa Agashe, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. As an independent postdoctoral fellow, she works in an Evolutionary Biology laboratory and blends molecular biology with evolution, investigating how errors in protein synthesis can influence bacterial adaptation, and even turn out to be good for the cell.

The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) has partnered with The Habitat Trust (THT) and the National Conservation Foundation (NCF) to offer an MSc programme in wildlife biology and conservation.

Bangalore Life Science Cluster (BLiSC) welcomed Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs to its campus. The minister made it a point to visit the Cluster for talks with the directors and CEO of NCBS, inStem, and C-CAMP respectively.