The study from IISc found a previously unidentified yeast-like symbiont inside the lac insect Kerria lacca, which gives the insect its distinctive red colour and, may also provide other nutrients in return for shelter.

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Bengaluru

In an exclusive interaction with Research Matters, leading scientists, including three Infosys Prize winners and a jury member, highlighted that a greater thrust on science was the need of the hour. They were sharing their impressions on the sidelines of the inauguration of the new office of the Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) that was inaugurated recently. 

Bengaluru

The Infosys Science Foundation has inaugurated its new office in South Bengaluru.

Mumbai

Multi-institutional 5G test bed project to help develop human resources and 5G infrastructure and create an enabling environment

Mumbai

Cancer immunotherapy developed at IIT Bombay promises affordable cancer cure

Mumbai

Researchers from IIT Bombay, IIT Madras and IIIT Hyderabad have come together to create the speech-to-speech machine translation (SSMT) system from English to many Indian languages.

Mumbai

Researchers at IIT Bombay have designed and developed NAVIC and GPS capable RF receiver called Dhruva.

Mumbai

Research at the Battery Prototyping Lab at IIT Bombay is prototyping and scaling up of energy storage technologies.

Mumbai

IIT Bombay professor Subramaniam Chandramouli gets  the Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2021 for his innovative proposal to generate ‘green heat’

Bengaluru

A proposed method to capture carbon dioxide and convert it to industrially useful chemicals gets IIT Bombay entry to the X-prize carbon removal grand prize competition. 

Bengaluru

Prof Bedangadas Mohanty of the National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneshwar, has been awarded the Infosys prize in Physics 2021 for investigations of nuclear force. At the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the European Organization for Nuclear Research, he determined the transition temperature of the quark-gluon plasma to hadronic matter, observed heavy antimatter nuclei, observed nuclear spin-orbital angular momentum interactions, and other effects in the quark-gluon plasma.

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