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.

Endosomal acidification inhibitors target SARS-CoV-2 entry and infection. Image by Chaitra Prabhakara; Design by Chaitra Prabhakara and Sowmya Jahnavi. 

This is a follow up to a press note released by NCBS on July 6th. We have received a number of requests for further clarifications.

On October 5, 2020, Bandhopadhyay et al. published “Discovery of iron-sensing bacterial riboswitches” in Nature Chemical Biology. The publication was announced in an NCBS press release dated October 6, 2020. Soon after publication, attention was drawn by readers on the website PubPeer to suspicious features in certain images in the paper. These concerns were immediately communicated by senior author Dr.

Most of us have heard of Alzheimer’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder marked by brain cell death and the shrinking of the brain.

The Journal of Neuroscience’s edition on 28 April 2021 Volume 41, Issue 17, carries a cover image created by Sreeja Kumari Dhanya, whose paper with Prof. Gaiti Hasan is published in this edition.

This confocal image shows Purkinje neurons in a mouse cerebellar section. Purkinje neurons that expresses tdTomato fluorescence are immunostained with calbindin (green). The ER-Ca2+ sensor STIM1 supports expression of genes that maintain dendritic morphology and synaptic input of these cells.

Insects play crucial roles in the ecosystem, and have both known and unknown import in our lives on this planet.

A new study reveals differences in the genomic history of tiger subspecies, pointing to the importance of understanding evolutionary history for future conservation