COVID-19: Consortium of four Indian cities funded for enhanced genome surveillanceEstablished with support and seed funding from Rockefeller Foundation, the new effort will track the emergence of viral variants correlated...
10 Jun, 2021, 09.30 PM IST
New COVID-19 strain: Total 38 people in India test positiveIt said comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts and others. Genome sequencing on other specimen...
04 Jan, 2021, 05.24 PM IST
Van Heusen partners with govt body to manufacture masks and athleisure wearThrough this collaboration, Van Heusen is launching lab-licensed masks and athleisure wear with germicidal technology that claims to disabl...
28 Nov, 2020, 02.44 PM IST
Azim Premji Foundation, NCBS-TIFR, inStem join hands to ramp up Covid-19 testingThe partnership of Azim Premji Foundation, the National Centre for Biological Sciences and the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenera...
18 May, 2020, 07.07 PM IST
Azim Premji Foundation, NCBS, inStem ink partnership on enhanced testing for COVID-19The partnership would enable free-of-cost testing for COVID-19 to a large number of people from disadvantaged and marginalised communities,...
18 May, 2020, 03.00 PM IST
With cryo-electron microscope, India hopes to join the revolution sweeping across the world of medicineThe microscope which set the world of biology on fire required expertise to operate. Without Ragunath, the microscope would be just like a ...
12 Feb, 2018, 08.06 PM IST
How startup TeamIndus is eyeing space colonisation and plans to land on moonThe Bangalore-based startup is sending a rover to the moon in March next year, as part of a $30 mn challenge to land and travel on the moon...
07 Dec, 2017, 09.47 AM IST
How a seaweed is providing Sea6 Energy and its four founders from IIT-Madras with opportunitiesSea6 is now based at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-Camp), the Bengaluru-based incubator built by the Department of Bio...
29 Oct, 2017, 01.55 AM IST
Tata Trusts to start project to eradicate malaria in IndiaTata Trusts chairman Ratan Tata, managing trustee R Venkataramanan and head of innovation Manoj Kumar will bet the trustees of the new Inst...
27 Sep, 2017, 11.20 AM IST
C-CAMP, BIRAC plan to sow their SEED in 10 startupsThe scheme — Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (SEED) — will support 8-10 life sciences startups for its first batch.
02 May, 2017, 12.44 AM IST
Government’s biotech innovation centre to be set up in Bengaluru's C-CAMPThe centre will be engaged in biotechnology entrepreneurship awareness programmes, creating a national biotechnology entrepreneurship chall...
02 Mar, 2017, 08.44 AM IST
India's biotech capital spreads its wingsConsidering the state of the industry, and the presence of so many academic institutions in Bengaluru, seasoned entrepreneurs think that th...
22 Dec, 2016, 12.59 AM IST
- First Indian researcher nominated to European investigator programme
Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) Researcher Minhajuddin Sirajuddin from the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) in Ben...
10 Dec, 2016, 06.37 PM IST
How Bengaluru became the biotech capital of IndiaThis bio-cluster is situated not too far from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), research-led university that is also generating start...
12 Nov, 2015, 10.58 AM IST
Scientists sequence Tulsi genome for medicinal propertiesThe medicinal properties of Tulsi are attributed to specialised compounds produced as a part of its defence mechanism.
13 Sep, 2015, 12.51 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi shows interest in how stem cell research can treat brain diseasesKeen to understand how stem cells could help treat untraceable brain diseases, the PM spent nearly an hour interacting with researchers.
19 Feb, 2015, 10.46 AM IST
- India, University of Cambridge tie up for research venture at Bangalore
India's Department of Biotechnology and the University of Cambridge are setting up a new initiative for chemical biology and molecular ther...
14 Sep, 2012, 12.41 PM IST