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Smell and the Immune System
Our understanding of physiological consequences to the sense of smell i.e. olfaction brought about by sensing specific environmental odours is mostly limited to animal behavioural responses. While favourable odours are thought to mediate attractive animal behaviour, aversive odours trigger escape responses. Developmental regulation of odour-sensing however, remains poorly characterized. In this regard, the importance of […]
Shared Genetic Link for Heart Muscle Disease and Diabetes Identified among South Asians
Heart failure is a leading cause of death worldwide, shown to increasingly affect young individuals below the age of 40. Cardiomyopathy is an acquired or hereditary condition of the heart muscle, eventually leading to heart failure. Recent epidemiological and clinical studies suggest that a substantial proportion of cardiomyopathy patients (around 10%) coexist with diabetes. So […]
Dr. Sunil Laxman of iBRIC-inStem selected as one among EMBO Global Investigators
Dr. Sunil Laxman, Assistant Investigator at the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bangalore, has been selected as one of nine life scientists to join the European Molecular Biology Organization’s Global Investigator Programme. We, along with EMBO team, congratulate the nine life scientists across the globe on their selection as EMBO Global Investigators. […]
Dr. Salil Sukumaran of ADBS Program Receives the Prestigious Hugh Gurling Award in World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG), 2020
The Google search for ‘bipolar disorder’ usually shows us the result as ‘this is a mental illness marked by extreme shifts in mood’, and that ‘the exact cause is not known but is believed to be a combination of genetics, and altered brain structure…’ But why or how is brain structure altered; or exactly how […]
An Interview with Uncle Raman from ‘Bharath and Fatima Learn about COVID-19′
A national crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic calls for clear and simple explanation of the issues at hand. An important aspect of this is to explain the general public the scientific basis of the disease and its effects, possible solutions to mitigate the spread of the disease, and find a cure over time. This task […]
Ways to Get Bigger : How Cells Switch from Growing in Size to Increasing in Number
The size of an organ or tissue is determined both by the number of cells it has and the size of each of those cells. The increase in size during development and thereafter is thought to occur in one of two ways: ‘hyperplasia’ or ‘hypertrophy’. Hyperplasia is when a tissue grows by increasing cell number, […]
Baker’s yeast teaches us how to budget during a crisis
They brew your beer and bloat your bread. They inhabit the skin of fruits and colonize some of the deepest parts of the human body. Say hello to the whiz kid of the fungal kingdom, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, commonly referred to as baker’s yeast. Image: Control of metabolic specialization by Aspartate Highly versatile and quick to […]
CNS,inStem – NYU Researchers Develop Method to Identify Newly Synthesized Proteins in Blood
CNS, inStem – NYU Researchers Develop Method to Identify Newly Synthesized Proteins in Blood We have all had blood tests in our lives that involved drawing a small quantity of blood from our veins and testing it for the levels of enzymes, vitamins, iron, and glucose. The blood draw remains the most commonly used biopsy […]
