CCMB Daak - Building leaders in science

Biology uncovers the beauty of life, death included in it. This Daak will bring in how life scientists uncover the many maladies of cells, and help relieve them. Cover art: End of Life:Apoptosis by Odra Noel, Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Cells identify chiral forms of amino acids

Recent study from R Sankaranarayanan’s lab reinforces that cells have stringent machinery to ensure that D-amino acids stay out of protein translation process. In this paper, they have worked with the smallest chiral amino acid, alanine. They show the chirality of alanine is recognized by both AlaRS and DTD enzymes. AlaRS enzyme helps in recruiting alanine in protein production whereas DTD proofreads for chirality of amino acids. Together, they can keep D-Ala from getting into proteins.

Where does TB stand in India today?

Why is TB still a problem for India? And how is multidrug resistance aggravating the problem? Join in the discussion between Vinay Nandicoori and Pallava Bagla.

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Microbes, more than just agents of chaos

We remember microbes only in the context of diseases. But they are much more than just the disease-causing agents. They hold many mysteries of life in them, helping scientists understand the tree of life on earth. Haripriya Parthasarathy writes here on the mysteries that viruses behold.

Does your brain burn?

Our brain works all the time. What does it take for the brain to keep working? How much energy are we talking about here? Aditya Undru takes us through these questions here.

Humans are not the all-powerful, after all!

Check out our latest zines on how many animals can repair nerve injuries while humans can't. Ishwariya Venkatesh's lab uses bioinformatic tools to study networks of molecules that are important in these regenerative powers.

Many congratulations to

Abishek Bharadwaj for the first prize in oral presentation under Basic Research at the Advances in Cardiovascular Medicine and Research-2023 organized by International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences and International Society for Heart Research- Indian section at PGIMER, Chandigarh.

Priyanka Pant for the third prize in oral presentation under Basic Research at the Advances in Cardiovascular Medicine and Research-2023 organized by International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences and International Society for Heart Research- Indian section at PGIMER, Chandigarh.

Priyanka Pant also for the first prize in oral presentation at HySci 2023 at NIAB, Hyderabad.

Shemin Mansuri for the second prize in oral presentation at HySci 2023 at NIAB, Hyderabad.

Sakshi Shambhavi and Shaik Shafiulla for the shared third prize in poster presentation at HySci 2023 at NIAB, Hyderabad.

Harshit Vaish for the first prize in science fiction writing at HySci 2023 at NIAB, Hyderabad.

Annapoorna PK for the second prize in Talk Your Thesis at India Science Festival 2023.

Young international life scientists at CCMB

Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) visited CCMB on Mar 3. The day was filled with talks from EMBO's Young Investigators Network and training sessions from EMBO Press.

At the junction of science and journalism

As the discussion grows stronger on having more educated and responsible science journalism, CCMB conducted a bootcamp on science journalism for the life science students interested in science communication in Hyderabad with experts from the industry. Sandhya Ramesh from The Print and Sayantan Datta from Krea University and The Life of Science facilitated the workshop.

Catch them young

We partnered with Pratham Digital to reach out to rural students of Telangana to inform and engage them on the science that happens at CCMB. Selected 20 of them visited CCMB campuses on Mar 14-15.

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