CCMB Daak - Building leaders in science

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Molecular biology helps remains of Queen Ketevan reach her country

While history had brought Georgia's Queen Ketevan's remains to India, it is molecular biology tools that have now identified those and sent them back to Georgia. Among the bone remnants found in St Augustine's church in Goa by the Archaeological Society of India, the Ancient DNA lab of CCMB, then led by Dr Lalji Singh identified the bones belonging to the Queen in 2013. The Government of India has now handed over these remains to the Georgian Government.

Genes tell us about our ancestors.
They say Indians share a common ancestry.

The molecular biology tools help us find out our ancestry. They allow us to look into DNA composition, compare these among samples and find commonalities and dissimilarities. Greater the similarities in DNA samples, more closely the people (sources of DNA) are related. These studies tell us all 1.2 billion Indians share a common ancestry.

Realizing the potential of stem cells

Hear the experts of stem cell biology from different research institutes of India. They discuss the India's capabilities in stem cell biology, areas where the technology can be used in the country and the regulations that need to be in place for it.

Molecular balance to maintain quiescence of muscle stem cells

Muscle stem cells remain quiescent, alert and waiting for a signal to differentiate. In the latest paper from Jyotsna Dhawan's group, they study the balance between repression of new protein formation and decay of mRNA (instruction to build proteins) to regulate quiescence in these stem cells.

A sensor in serotonin receptor to detect cholesterol

Cells communicate via receptor proteins housed on their membranes. But their functions depend on the lipid content around them - as shown by previous studies by Prof Amitabha Chattopadhyay's lab on serotonin1A receptors and cholesterol. They have now identified the region on serotonin1A receptor (in orange) that can detect choleseterol (in blue).

COVID-19 updates

Remember most coronavirus-infected people are asymptomatic

Our results of Hyderabad's serosurvey is now available as a preprint. Our studies had shown in Jan 2021, 54% of the people we tested in Hyderabad were positive for antibodies against coronavirus. And most of them were unaware that they were infected by the virus.

COVID-19 appropriate behaviour - still as relevant

And vaccines work against Delta variant of coronavirus

Scared of COVID-19 vaccines? Hear our thoughts on some of your fears!

Our studies have shown that vaccines work against Delta variant of coronavirus. Though vaccinated people can be infected by the virus, they develop antibodies against the virus and have lower chances of getting severe symptoms. Vaccinated people don't need hospitalization and have lower mortality than the unvaccinated ones.

CCMB Biologue - for discussions on emerging life science questions

In this CCMB Biologue, Amitabh Joshi from JNCASR, Bangalore discusses the philosophy of research with a focus on life sciences. He makes a case against the race for reporting mechanisms in research publications, for often we barely understand all the parameters controlling phenomena in living systems.

I am a Scientist

Join us in Sankaranarayanan's journey in science - from studying in a government school in a village of Tamil Nadu to deliberating on taking a job in telecom to studying physical sciences to solving some of the fundamental questions to understand life. Science, after all, works beyond boundaries that we often set.

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