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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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  • NEW STUDY REVEALS COMPARATIVE IMMUNOGENICITY OF COVISHIELD AND COVAXIN VACCINES IN INDIA

    NEW STUDY REVEALS COMPARATIVE IMMUNOGENICITY OF COVISHIELD AND COVAXIN VACCINES IN INDIA

    Research Explained
    25 March 2024

    A study by a consortium of eleven institutes, led by scientists from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, compares the immunogenicity of Covishield™ and Covaxin® - two primary COVID-19 vaccines widely used in India. The findings of the study offer valuable insights into the quality and quantity of immune responses induced by these vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, with significant implications for shaping future vaccination strategies.

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  • Understanding Endangered Vulture Diets: Implications for Conservation Strategies

    Understanding Endangered Vulture Diets: Implications for Conservation Strategies

    Research Explained
    25 March 2024

    A new study, a first of its kind in the Indian subcontinent, has revealed how the diet composition of threatened vulture species varies across different landscapes. Using a novel metabarcoding technique, a team of scientists from National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), Bombay Natural History Society, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Karnataka Vulture Conservation Trust, and Hume Centre for Ecology and Wildlife Biology, have been able to examine faecal samples from vultures, to identify the DNA of diet species whose carcasses the vultures likely consumed.

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  • Can our brain predict future?

    Can our brain predict future?

    Research Explained
    08 February 2024

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  • NEW APPROACHES FOR BUTTERFLY POPULATION MONITORING

    NEW APPROACHES FOR BUTTERFLY POPULATION MONITORING

    Research Explained
    20 December 2023

    A trio of researchers- Suman Attiwilli, Ravikanthachari and Krushnamegh Kunte, from the Biodiversity Lab at NCBS have tested and confirmed a new field technique to monitor butterfly populations, that is more effective and less complex than the ones that are more widely used.  The study titled “A Comparison Between Time-Constrained Counts and Line Transects as Methods to Estimate Butterfly Diversity and Monitor Populations in Tropical Habitats” is published in the journal Insect Conservation and Diversity.

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  • New Clues on Precision Medicine for Bipolar Disorder

    New Clues on Precision Medicine for Bipolar Disorder

    Research Explained
    13 December 2023

    “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big”, writes Van Gogh in a letter to his brother, Theo. The famous oil-on-canvas painting ‘Starry Night’ was inspired by this view from the window of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in southern France where he spent the year 1889. He suffered from mental illness most of his life.

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  • HPV DNA integration drives oncogene overexpression through rewiring of 3D chromatin interactions

    HPV DNA integration drives oncogene overexpression through rewiring of 3D chromatin interactions

    Research Explained
    13 December 2023

    Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the major causative agent of cervical cancers.

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  • TESTING THE USE OF CAMERA TRAPS IN TREE CANOPIES TO DOCUMENT ARBOREAL SPECIES

    TESTING THE USE OF CAMERA TRAPS IN TREE CANOPIES TO DOCUMENT ARBOREAL SPECIES

    Research Explained
    07 December 2023

    The Western Ghats rainforests harbor many elusive and rarely spotted species such as the Nilgiri Marten and the Malabar Spiny Dormouse among many others.  However, information on such elusive or rare species are limited, making it difficult for scientists and researchers to study and conserve them.

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

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