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Posted on December 14, 2019December 14, 2019

Plants emit ultrasonic distress screams when stressed

Researchers at Tel-Aviv University have found plants making airborne emission of ultrasound screams when subjected to stress. They suspect that the sounds are generated by a process called cavitation. The…

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Posted on December 14, 2019February 3, 2020

JNCASR’s molecule effective against multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

JNCASR researchers have synthesised a molecule that shows high antibacterial activity against multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. The molecule has no toxicity to human cells. It is effective against A. baumannii bacteria…

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Posted on October 5, 2019October 5, 2019

IGIB finds a protein with better gene editing precision

IGIB researchers have used a different Cas9 protein derived from another bacteria to make gene editing more efficient and precise. The new Cas9 protein shows very less tendency to bind to…

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Posted on January 5, 2019January 6, 2019

IIT Kanpur team unravels molecular mechanism of a prostate cancer subtype

IIT Kanpur-led team discovers the molecular mechanism by which a protein (EZH2) is produced in excess leading to a reduction in the levels of two microRNAs. This causes an oncogene…

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Posted on July 21, 2018

Podcast: How cholesterol helps bacterial toxins kill cells

IISc researchers have found cholesterol present in cell membrane playing a central role in the two-step process of stabilising and binding together the pore-forming toxin Cytolysin A. On binding to cholesterol,…

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Posted on July 21, 2018July 22, 2018

IISc researchers find cholesterol helps bacterial toxins kill cells

IISc researchers found cholesterol present in cell membrane plays a central role in the two-step process of stabilising and binding the pore-forming toxin Cytolysin A. On binding to cholesterol, the structure…

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Posted on July 14, 2018July 16, 2018

Himender Bharti gets honoured, has an ant species named after him

A new ant species discovered from the southern foothills of Pir Panjal Himalayas in Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir is named after Dr. Himender Bharti from Punjabi University, Patiala. He has…

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Posted on May 31, 2017May 31, 2017

Scientists are accidentally helping poachers drive rare species to extinction

Benjamin Scheele, Australian National University and David Lindenmayer, Australian National University If you open Google and start typing “Chinese cave gecko”, the text will auto-populate to “Chinese cave gecko for…

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