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  • Spotlight
    28 July 2021

    Listening to the stories of our people, lands and waters

    First Chair ready to foster History and Culture of Science at NCBS

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    03 December 2020

    Archives at NCBS Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science

    TNQ Technologies supports the Archives at NCBS to establish a landmark chair in the History and Culture of Science

     

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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
    11 January 2020

    NCBS Archives tells stories of how science blossomed here

    Letters, photographs, old instruments and notebooks are among 50,000 objects at the Archives.
     
    December 4, 1987: In just about legible cursive handwriting, Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick writes a letter to Obaid Siddiqi, professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, apologising for failing to come and meet him in Mumbai. Now the letter lies carefully placed in a paper file, inside a small cardboard box, in a steel locker at the Archives of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru.
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  • NCBS makes News
    06 February 2019

    A New Science Archives Preserves the Ways of Seeing Science's People

    The curators of an art installation at the venue hope the exhibit will "de-science" science.

     

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  • NCBS makes News
    06 February 2019

    NCBS opens first of its kind archive in Bangalore

    In a move that will probably make the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) founder Obaid Siddiqi elated, the institute has set up an archive for contemporary biology in India in the space that used to be his old lab.

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  • NCBS makes News
    04 February 2019

    History of biological research in museum

    The Archives, an informal museum of sorts that records the history of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and contemporary biology research in the country, was inaugurated on Monday.

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  • NCBS makes News
    13 October 2018

    A Peek Inside NCBS Bengaluru’s Upcoming Scientific Archive

    From Old Letters Preserved In Godrej Cabinets To One-Of-A-Kind Scientific Equipment, A Peek Inside NCBS Bengaluru’s Upcoming Scientific Archive.

     

    The archive will be open to everyone, and its curator hopes that someday it will be part of an interconnected digital archive of science that enables storytelling across different disciplines.

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  • NCBS makes News
    04 April 2018

    The History of Biology in India will Soon Get its Own Space

    1,500-sq-ft archives space to open up at old lab of Prof Obaid Siddiqi at the NCBS

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National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a premier centre for research and teaching in frontier areas of biology in India. Our  research at NCBS covers a diverse set of subjects in frontier areas of modern biology ranging in scope from atomic to population level studies.

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