Join Nikhil Hajirnis in his journey to be a scientist, starting as a child in Indore. From tweaking lenses to dissecting the details of life as a PhD student, he takes us through the excitement of hands-on experimentation as well as vis a vis with failures.
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Art by Disha Chauhan, story by Somdatta Karak.
Snakes and Indians are intricately linked. We revere snakes. But increased snake-human encounters also means more snakebites. Where do we stand in terms of snakebite mitigation in India? Avni Blotra writes.
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This #Daak, we bring you loads on stem cells and the upcoming technologies - from articles to conferences to opportunities to work with us. Check out the Daak now.
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Many congratulations to Sankaranarayanan for his election as EMBO Associate Member this year. 67 new members from 22 different countries join the EMBO community of 1900 plus members, shaping the roadmap of life science research.
Read more here: www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-elects-67-new-memā¦
Is it raining in your part of the country? If so, get a cup of hot tea/coffee/milk, and start the weekend with a trip to the lesser-known parts of the Western Ghats, with Gayathri Shreedharan. This is a story of the old trees in the swamps of a village called Kharadi in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra.
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Tanishqa Chaubal from Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER), Kolkata spent some time with our stem cell biologists, and writes how and why scientists grow #organoids. From studying diseases to help test new drugs to studying the mechanisms of organ development and growth - organoids are going to be here.
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Time for #CCMBDaak - stories on mRNA vaccine building platform in India to genetic risk score for diabetes, drug repurposing for malaria, studying gibbon populations and brain cells plus peek into lives of our scientists.
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Let's take you through the lives of our scientists. Here is Mihir, a wildlife biologist who studies population structures of Hoolock gibbons in the forests of northeast India. How did he choose to study gibbons? What does a day in a wildlife biologist's life look like?
Check here: scitales.ccmb.res.in/trailing-the-only-apes-of-indā¦
Let us take some time to think about the rich biodiversity of India, World Biodiversity Day.
We will take you through some of the work that our LaCONES scientists are doing to understand Indian biodiversity and address some of the challenges:
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In the forests of Western Ghats, our scientists go exploring many hidden life forms. These life forms go on to tell us many stories of earth's evolution. Here is Bharti Dharapuram writing about their journeys to and work in these forests.
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