“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.

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

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.

How mutation spectra reversals increase the odds of evolutionary success

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HOW BUTTERFLY COMMUNITIES EVOLVE INTO A GAME OF WARNING AND DECEIPT!

Students from Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte's Biodiversity Lab have discovered some secrets of a long evolutionary game through which butterflies come to warn, fool and escape their predators using traits such as wing colour patterns and flight

Researchers at NCBS gain key insights into the role of whole genome duplication in the evolution of the vesicle trafficking system