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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 […]
The Immune System in Growth Control
The regulation of growth in animals continues to intrigue scientists. In order to breakdown and understand the many elements that control growth, scientists turn to biological systems where it is possible to track different stages of development, all the way from the earliest stages of formation to an adult fully grown organism in the laboratory. […]
SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing effort
COVID-19 response by scientists at DBT-inStem and NCBS-TIFR, Bengaluru COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, is an ongoing pandemic, affecting millions of people worldwide, with lakhs of cases in India. Sequencing viral genomes from infected individuals across the country can help understand transmission chains, the dynamics of the global pandemic and viral genome […]
Autism in a Dish
Autism Spectrum Disorders and Intellectual Disabilities (ASD/IDs) represent a major and growing public health challenge. The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) supported the Centre for Neurodevelopmental Synaptopathies (CNS) – a partnership between inStem and NCBS in Bangalore and the University of Edinburgh, UK – to study the pathophysiology of ASD/IDs. A major effort at the CNS […]
