Research highlights of January 2024
Role of a novel variant of SQSTM1 gene in neurodegeneration Neurological disorders are often associated with variation in the genes. Here, a case study on a 20 year old Indian…
Research Highlights of December 2023
Changing antiviral response with SARS-CoV2 variants As the SARS-CoV2 evolved, the immune response also changed due to the change in transmissibility and immune evasion of the different SARS-CoV2 variants. The…
Genomics and Artificial Intelligence in Bridging the Cancer Care Gap
As the world commemorates World Cancer Day with the theme of Close the Care Gap, it is time to revisit the progress made so far and the challenges that remain,…
Research Highlights of Nov 2023
Variants, transcript diversity and microbial diversity in COVID-19 Some of the factors that affect COVID-19 disease severity are the strain of SARS-CoV2, the host response and the existing microbial diversity…
CAPTAIN BAC
As the world is propelled towards the AI era one of the pressing concerns is the need for an efficient and sustainable waste management system. By 2050, the world is…
Research Highlights of September 2023
Story of Lipid Movement Lipids are one of the major sources of energy and have many other important functions like synthesis of membranes and signaling molecules. For all these purposes…
Research Highlights of August 2023
Round up of research articles published in Aug 2023 Autophagy and AlphaFold2 Until recently, understanding how proteins in our cells work together has been like exploring uncharted territory. But now,…
What Can We Learn from the Chandrayaan-3 Landing Event?
In the past, our chats were usually about general things like cricket and politics, whether we were at home or hanging out at tea stalls. But something really exciting happened…
Research Highlights of July 2023
Round up of research articles published between 1st – 31st July 2023 by CSIR-IGIB: Extracellular vesicles and inflammatory diseases Inflammation is seen as a cause and effect of various chronic…
The multifaceted potential of lncRNA
The World RNA Day, initiated in 2018 by Juan Pablo Tosar, a molecular biologist and researcher at the Pasteur Montevideo Institute in Uruguay, is celebrated on 1st August annually raising…
World Microbiome Day 2023
Saraswati Awasthi RS-Lab Every year, 27th June is observed as World Microbiome Day1 founded by APC Microbiome Ireland in 2018 with the aim to create awareness about the importance of…