On the Rare Disease Day, we approached Prof. Raghu Padinjat, Cell biologist, Dean Research, NCBS-TIFR, to learn about his work on using stem cells to understand Lowe Syndrome.

“One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.” - Neil Degrasse Tyson

Using maths to correct for natural selection in Mutation Accumulation experiments

Image from Deora et al., 2021

Illustration by Mohammad Shariq

What makes plants grow?

A network to monitor butterfly populations in India for science, education, community building, and biodiversity conservation 

As requested by the Director, TIFR, the TIFR Academic Ethics Committee (TAEC) conducted an enquiry of data manipulation in two recently published papers from the laboratory of an NCBS-TIFR faculty member. The TAEC conducted a thorough investigation, and studied various aspects related to these papers. After careful deliberations, the TAEC has reported its conclusions, which are now available at: https://www.tifr.res.in/TSN/article/Findings_of_the_TAEC.pdf.

A team of scientists have discovered the genetic cause of the odd coat colouration and patterning in Similipal’s black tigers.