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Gaurav Diwan and Deepa Agashe from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) trace the history of some of the key components of bacterial translation, to understand their role in the evolution of bacterial translation.
NCBS / September 2018
Farm manager Laura Braasch says the method helps create healthier soil for growing crops.
Dartmouth News / July 2018
More than 100 researchers describe their work and the struggles they face, including gender bias and achieving a positive work–life balance.
Nature / June 2018
Animals in warmer places will benefit from being smaller and leaner than their cousins who inhabit colder climes. And cities are heat traps. Put two and two together…
The Wire / June 2018
Scientists from Bengaluru have designed tiny motors that can be steered through living cells.
The Wire / April 2018
This is the story of how two women joined forces to help set up a daycare center on the campus of a premier research institution in the outskirts of Bhopal.
The Life of Science / September 2017
A behind-the-scenes look at a first-of-its-kind workshop on science photography
IndiaBioscience / March 2017
Gagandeep Kang, recently appointed Executive Director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, is one India’s leading clinical scientists. On international women’s day, IndiaBioscience chatted with Gagandeep Kang about her
IndiaBioscience / March 2017
"The message that I’d like people to take away is that curiosity can make breakthrough discoveries."
The Wire / August 2016
An upcoming conference in Bangalore in September 2016 will showcase current projects and initiate dialogue about the future of Indian chemical ecology.
IndiaBioscience / April 2016
India's first Annual Postdoctoral Symposium
IndiaBioscience / December 2015
The Sky Island Beatbox Project combined birdsong, beatboxing and captivating visuals in a series of performances to turn the spotlight on the increasingly threatened “sky islands” of the Western Ghats and their feathered denizens.
IndiaBioscience / October 2015
IISc researchers develop an easy-to assemble, portable and scalable technique to purify wastewater.
IndiaBioscience / September 2015
Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan talks about the changes in his career, his engagement with Indian science and his plans for the Royal Society.
IndiaBioscience / August 2015
Science communication contest challenges researchers to share their research with a general audience — clearly, creatively and succinctly.
IndiaBioscience / August 2015
What’s the state of play concerning ‘women in science’? Harini Barath tried to find out at #LiNo15
Lindau Blog / July 2015
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, discovered that retinoic acid was being synthesized in an unusual location in the developing brains of chicks
IndiaBioscience / July 2015
Researchers at CeNSE are at the forefront of efforts to revolutionize future power electronics in India.
CeNSE news, IISc / June 2015
Survey by researchers produces a list of the public's top concerns about the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems in India
NCBS News / June 2015
They have a high genetic predisposition to Type 1 diabetes, but a very small number actually develop the disease.
IndiaBioscience / May 2015
Couples in academia are a rising trend, one that academic institutions simply cannot ignore.
IndiaBioscience / April 2015
How do cells communicate with their environment?
IndiaBioscience / May 2015
Nanoparticle arrays separated by the space of a single atom
Nature India / February 2015
Science communicator, author of two popular science books, and a vocal advocate for women in science, paleobiologist Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan chatted with Harini Barath about her science, passions and interests.
IndiaBioscience / January 2015
Drug-free nanostructures—glyceryl-dilaurate nanostructured lipid carriers (GDL-NLCs)—are shown to selectively target Plasmodium-infected red blood cells and afford partial protection against malaria. Add the drugs, and they become a formidable vehicle for
IndiaBioscience / November 2014
The first in a series of ten interviews of, and about, Women in Science
IndiaBioscience / October 2014
In conversation with Rohan Chakravarthy: cartoonist, animation designer and illustrator.
IndiaBioscience / September 2014
Scientists combine two complementary spectroscopic techniques to investigate the structure of the Alzheimer’s causing amyloid-beta peptide.
IndiaBioscience / August 2014
More than half the patients affected by Hepatitis C for interferon don’t respond to treatment with interferon. Scientists use mathematical modeling to understand why and gain insight into how the treatment can be made more successful.
IndiaBioscience / July 2014
People from all walks of life are contributing to science. They volunteer to join forces with researchers to help in collecting vital scientific data, analyzing large volumes of data and answering important scientific questions. This trend is gaining popu
IndiaBioscience / June 2014
An artificial nanomotor makes its first successful “voyage” in human blood
Lindau Blog / January 2015
Physicists have successfully fabricated the first artificial nanometer-sized swimmers that mimic the independent locomotion of microorganisms in fluids. These swimmers are a powerful test system to understand collective behavior.
IndiaBioscience / March 2014
The Phage Hunters Integrating Research and Education (PHIRE) program provides high school and undergraduate students just that. Started by Graham Hatfull, A professor of biotechnology at the University of Pittsburgh, the program provides a platform for st
IndiaBioscience / January 2014
New techniques of microscopy are helping Indian researchers explore new worlds
IndiaBioscience / December 2012
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