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…
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…
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,…
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…
Research Highlights of June 2023
hnRNPB1-mediated HOTAIR restructuring for RNA−RNA interactions Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulate chromatin activity by interacting with chromatin modifiers, where they act as scaffolds. One such lncRNA is HOTAIR, which is…
Research Highlights of May 2023
A roundup of research articles published in the previous month (16 April 2023 – 15 May 2023) at the institute: Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: Is it harmful or beneficial? The transfer…
Research Spotlight of April 2023
This month’s research spotlight shines on an article published in the journal Experimental Dermatology by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Entitled “Genome-wide profiling reveals pervasive transcriptional alterations in fibroblasts derived…
Research Highlights of April 2023
A roundup of research articles published in the previous month (16 March 2023 – 15 April 2023) at the institute: The paradox of Vitiligo Vitiligo is a non-life-threatening skin de-pigmentation…
Research Highlights of March 2023
A roundup of research articles published in the previous month (16 February 2023 – 15 March 2023) at the institute: Circulatory RNA and liver metabolism in Diabetes: A potential strategy…