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  • Discovering a CLASSY Way to Grow Bigger Rice Seeds

    Discovering a CLASSY Way to Grow Bigger Rice Seeds

    Research Explained
    30 October 2024

    We inherit our looks and quirks from our parents. But, we are not an equal product of our parent's genes.

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  • Inside the brain: Dendrites help identify patterns

    Inside the brain: Dendrites help identify patterns

    Research Explained
    03 October 2024

    Have you ever wondered how your brain can tell the difference between the smell of morning coffee and the aroma of hot chocolate, even though they share som

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  • Birds’ Secret to Restoring Hearing

    Birds’ Secret to Restoring Hearing

    Research Explained
    01 October 2024

    "What humiliation when any one beside me heard a flute in the far distance, while I heard nothing, or when others heard a sh

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  • Tracing the Genetic Footprints of India’s Elephants

    Tracing the Genetic Footprints of India’s Elephants

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    28 September 2024

    Elephants are long-distance migrants. The populations in India, which make up 60% of the global Asian elephant population, began their migrations 100,000 years ago, gradually settling in different parts of the country. A record of these journeys can be found imprinted in the DNA sequences of today’s populations.

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  • Understanding Collateral Arteries: a detour to escape stroke

    Understanding Collateral Arteries: a detour to escape stroke

    Research Explained
    26 September 2024

    More deadly than bullets and earthquakes, strokes claim millions of lives each year.

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  • Potential therapeutics for celiac disease could lie in our gut

    Potential therapeutics for celiac disease could lie in our gut

    Research Explained
    09 September 2024

    Wheat, rye, and barley are some of the oldest grains cultivated by humankind.

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  • How Does Rice Treat its Wounds?

    How Does Rice Treat its Wounds?

    Research Explained
    31 July 2024

    Step on a snake, it bites back. Step on a plant, it suffers in silence? Actually, no. Like animals, plants too have survival strategies to help them endure and recover from such accidents. In the plant world, being nibbled on by herbivores or damaged by harsh weather is routine.

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  • Large Herbivores losing genetic connectivity in Central India

    Large Herbivores losing genetic connectivity in Central India

    Research Explained
    08 July 2024

    Habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation are major threats to biodiversity across the globe. Extensive development is fragmenting habitats, resulting in small, isolated patches of natural habitat within a broader mosaic of altered landscapes.

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  • Transcriptional switches help bacteria survive aberrant DNA methylation

    Transcriptional switches help bacteria survive aberrant DNA methylation

    Research Explained
    18 April 2024

    Bacteria routinely face stress from radiation, toxins, metabolic by-products and even antibiotics secreted by other bacteria in the environment, which can damage their DNA.

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  • Unraveling Neural Health: Insights from Lipid Transfer Proteins and Cellular Regulation

    Unraveling Neural Health: Insights from Lipid Transfer Proteins and Cellular Regulation

    Research Explained
    17 April 2024

    In the intricate world of cellular biology, lipids are essential players, that serve as building blocks of cellular structure an

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