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  • Defining the brain mosaic in fruit flies and humans

    Defining the brain mosaic in fruit flies and humans

    Research Explained
    04 June 2018

    Similar to a mosaic floor where different patterned tiles come together to make a composite and holistic image, our brains too consist of billions of unique neurons that finally connect together and generate coordinated brain activity. Unlike the mosaic floor, however, which is static, our brains are dynamic and activity in the brain changes based on environmental cues.  So, what makes up the mosaic of our brain? Or, in other words, how are individual neurons different from each other?

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  • Protein Catch-22: Unravelling the Roles of Ataxin-2 in Health and Disease

    Protein Catch-22: Unravelling the Roles of Ataxin-2 in Health and Disease

    Research Explained
    17 May 2018

         Over thousands of people took the Ice Bucket Challenge, a sensation in the summer of 2014. Nominated participants were filmed dumping buckets of ice-cold water on their heads and they in turn, challenged their friends to do the same. Challenged participants had 24 hours to comply or refuse and thus forfeit a charitable financial donation.

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  • An integrated approach to understanding mental illnesses: doctors & scientists collaborate to study neuropsychiatric disorders

    An integrated approach to understanding mental illnesses: doctors & scientists collaborate to study neuropsychiatric disorders

    Research Explained
    20 April 2018

    With nearly 2 –3% of the population of youngsters and adults (between the ages of 15–59 years) at risk of developing neuropsychiatric diseases, India needs to focus on understanding mental disorders.

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  • Active Evolvable Matter Lab Receives HFSP 2018 Young Investigator Research Grant

    Active Evolvable Matter Lab Receives HFSP 2018 Young Investigator Research Grant

    Research Explained
    17 April 2018

    Prof. Shashi Thutupalli, head of the Active Evolvable Matter Laboratory at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore has received a 2018 Young Investigator Research Grant from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).

    The prestigious three-year funding is intended to establish new collaborative ties with scientists around the world and empower these teams to combine their expertise in addressing fundamental questions.

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  • NCBS Evolutionary Biologists Win American Society of Naturalists 2018 Presidential Award

    NCBS Evolutionary Biologists Win American Society of Naturalists 2018 Presidential Award

    Research Explained
    05 April 2018

    The American Society of Naturalists (ASN) conferred its prestigious 2018 Presidential Award to evolutionary biologists from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, based in Bangalore, India. The ASN Presidential Award honors an outstanding research article from among all the papers published in the society’s journal, The American Naturalist, in the preceding calendar year. ‘Am. Nat.’ is a prominent scientific journal that publishes research papers in frontier areas of evolutionary biology and ecology.

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  • A new twist to an old story of cellular signalling in the eye of a fly

    A new twist to an old story of cellular signalling in the eye of a fly

    Research Explained
    08 March 2018

    The eye of the fly

    Is wondrous indeed,

    For capturing images

    At uncanny speeds.

    The molecular signal

    That makes this possible,

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  • For flour beetles, it’s better to be a woman in a man’s world

    For flour beetles, it’s better to be a woman in a man’s world

    Research Explained
    05 March 2018

    Recent work from Deepa Agashe’s and Radhika Venkatesan’s groups has shown that female red flour beetles reproduce better in male-dominated groups than in unbiased or female-dominated groups.

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  • Of Bugs and Beetles: 
Deadly bacteria select for immune memory in beetles

    Of Bugs and Beetles: 
Deadly bacteria select for immune memory in beetles

    Research Explained
    02 January 2018

    We live in a world dominated by microbes, and most organisms have had to evolve strategies to deal with both, beneficial and pathogenic microbes. For humans as well as the animals we have domesticated, vaccination is by far the most popular and effective strategy against many pathogenic microbes. Vaccination relies on immune memory: on first exposure to a pathogen, our adaptive immune system generates specific antibodies, protecting against re-infection by the same pathogen.

     

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  • SCIENCE GALLERY INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES DIRECTOR FOR GALLERY IN BENGALURU

    SCIENCE GALLERY INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES DIRECTOR FOR GALLERY IN BENGALURU

    Research Explained
    04 December 2017

    Dublin/Bengaluru, 27th November 2017— Science Gallery International (SGI) today announced the appointment of Dr Jahnavi Phalkey as the Founding Director of Science Gallery Bengaluru.

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  • Laws of attraction: hoverfly pollinators use multiple cues to identify flowers across continents

    Laws of attraction: hoverfly pollinators use multiple cues to identify flowers across continents

    Research Explained
    28 November 2017

    You and I live in a sensory world—sight, sound, touch and taste blend to give us a sense of our surroundings. However, imagine perceiving the world as a fly, with a brain the size of a pinhead. Yet many insects with miniscule brains manage to do exactly what we do—identify objects like a flower, or a plant.

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