The Gallium Girl
The elements of the periodic table always remind me of people. People around me, my students, mentors and even well known scientists, nobel laureates and personalities I look up to.…
Glimpses of cancer research at CSIR-IGIB: From mechanisms to personalized medicine
For a disease that has been known since 400 BC, we sure have come far to understand some of the causes, differences in progression, and multiple therapeutic approaches to treating…
That was the year 2023 for us!
Another year is drawing to a close. Where did it go? It went in a whirlwind. A whirlwind of workshops, symposia, guest talks, outreach events, awareness campaigns, Research council meetings,…
The Hidden (Dis)abilities
We dedicate this month’s issue of Pulse to International Day of People with Disabilities*. Nobel Prize winner Edwin Krebs was hearing impaired. Another Nobel laureate, Dorothy Hodgkins suffered from rheumatoid…
Will you use ChatGPT?
Illustration by Nikita Bhor A recent reader poll in Nature revealed that 44% of the 1,600 participants in the survey find AI to be a useful and time-saving tool for…
A Festival of Science
It is October. The festival season is upon us. Festivals are times when the entire family gathers. Generations sit down together to roll laddoos or hang decorations. Old and young…
Scholars on campus and scholar abroad
The Mathura Road campus was abuzz with students from various disciplines in the last week of August as we hosted scholars from a prestigious exam – JBNSTS. JBNSTS, short for…
Servings of modern dishes of the RNA world
We dedicate this issue of Pulse to RNA, one of the key molecules that connects all the labs of our research institute. The mention of RNA brings the picture of…
A glimpse of brain research at IGIB
In this month’s editorial, I aim to highlight significant research questions that IGIB has been pursuing in the field of neurosciences. While this information may be redundant for the faculty…
Green Genetics
The past month was packed with diverse outreach events that ranged from Open Day and workshops to a movie screening. CSIR-IGIB was the outreach partner for the movie, Vision of…
Technology: potential solution or a new threat
We dedicate this issue to Srinivasan Ramachandran, fondly called as Ramu sir. Many of the younger researchers at the institute would not know that he was the one who started…