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Dr Samira Sheikh | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Obaid Siddiqi Lectures, a series of annual lectures delivered by the Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science at the Archives at NCBS, will be held in the city this week. The lectures will be delivered by Dr. Samira Sheikh, a historian of…
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The objectives of CALIBRE include establishing state-of-the-art infrastructure to harness the power of AI to transform biology research, developing advanced AI tools for basic, applied, and translational biology research, providing education and training to young Indian researchers to apply AI tools in biological research. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The National Centre for Biological Sciences…
Image for representation purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), in a collaborative study, have found that two simple environmental factors — calcium and pH — dictate whether the cancer spheroids hold together, fall apart, or even rebuild themselves from scratch. Floating cluster of cells When ovarian cancer…
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Ratan Tata at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, February 2002. | Photo Credit: NCBS Archives With the passing of Ratan Tata, we have lost—in addition to an industrial tycoon—a philanthropist who went for the long haul and was a calming influence amidst the turmoil and uncertainties of the everyday. At the Tata Institute…
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