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Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrates; climate change and habitat loss to blame
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A global team of scientists with Karthikeyan Vasudevan from CCMB show in their recent study that climate change as a major driver of amphibian decline. Climate change was the primary threat for 39% of species pushed toward extinction since 2004.
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Statins & serotonin, what do the drugs do beyond cholesterol lowering?
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Statins are drugs that lower cholesterol. Amitabha Chattopadhyay's lab have been detailing the effect of chronic statin use on cells, especially on a group of neurotransmitter receptors, called serotonin receptors. In their recent study, they show cAMP signaling by the serotonin receptor is reduced upon lovastatin treatment due to reduction in cholesterol and polymerization of the actin cytoskeleton.
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Understanding COVID-19 and other viral infections
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A multi-institutional study led by Santosh Chauhan shows a strong interferon system can protect from severe SARS-CoV-2 infection and pathology including inflammation-induced neuropathology. The study was done in mice.
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Towards a more seamless cornea regeneration
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Kiran Kumar's group with researchers from LVPEI and IIT, Hyderabad show the potential application of a human corneal extracellular matrix hydrogel without any additional materials for scarless corneal tissue regeneration. They also show a method to reduce the wasting of donated corneal tissue from eye banks. They found no difference in efficacy in using human tissues or that from cows. This may help ease clinical translation and can be used topically without sutures as an outpatient procedure.
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How is a complex organ like brain built? How do numerous neurons of different kinds know their exact function and carry them out? How are even these different kinds of cells formed? Enter the world of developmental biologists to see how they solve these marvels of nature via Aishwarya Arun's article in SciTales.
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mRNA vaccines - A chequered journey of a powerful therapy
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What is so special about mRNA vaccines that got Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman the Nobel Prize for Medicine this year? What has its journey of development been like? Hear Madhushudhana Rao take us through it all.
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Manjula Reddy for her JC Bose Fellowship
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Rajan Sankaranarayanan for his second round of JC Bose fellowship and on receiving the Third Annual Endowment award from the University of Hyderabad
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Amitabha Chattopadhyay for being selected for the INSA Distinguished Lecture Series
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Gayathri Sreedharan for her Best Talk Award at the recent Students Conference on Conservation Science at IISc, Bangalore
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Sai Poojitha for the Best Poster Award in the 7th Molecular Virology Conference held at IISc, Bangalore
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Anisha Sumith for winning the Best Poster Award at the Indian Academy of Neuroscience meeting held at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
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DNA analysis for food safety
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CCMB organized a 5-day workshop on DNA based barcode analysis for Animal Food Safety with Assistant Professors in Animal & Fishery Sciences. The workshop was sponsored by World Bank funded ICAR NAHEP-CAAST-MAFSU, Mumbai Veterinary College, and coordinated by Md Idris at CCMB.
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Becoming champions of wildlife conservation
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LaCONES-CCMB continues its tradition to enthuse young people to think about wildlife around them and become champions for their protection. This year, CCMB scientists saw skits and paintings by young people depicting their understanding of various facets of wildlife and conservation, followed by introducing them to citizen science.
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