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The role of government agencies funding science in India has come to question with the recent public outburst of eminent scientist C. N. R. Rao, scientific adviser to the Prime Minister of the country. In the backdrop of India's Department of Biotechnology chalking out a new funding regime, Nature India looks at some deep-set systemic issues.
Despite initial criticism, scientists, information experts and publishers agree that the future of scientific publishing lies in the open access model. How is India waking up to the phenomenon that's changing the face of science publishing globally?
Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, the informal, go-getter, new secretary of India's Department of Biotechnology does not sound like your typical bureaucrat. Over cups of black coffee under a pleasant winter sun — no messy files, no bulky reports and no secretaries in sight — he talks of drastically overhauling India's science funding machinery and some more.
New biological approaches are increasingly becoming an alternative to small drug molecules in medical treatment of diseases. Varun Kesherwani takes a look at how one such genetic therapy — the ShRNA approach by type II promoter — is opening up doors for complex medical problems.
It was World Diabetes Day on November 14. As India continues to house close to 17 per cent of the world's diabetic population, Muthuswamy Balasubramanyam argues that the 'early prevention' message should now be taken more seriously to nip an impending epidemic in the bud.
Imagine a world where the sky is green. Not because you are on a different planet but because you didn't know the word 'blue'. Suvasini Ramaswamy explores the apparently strange connection.
Though music has many definitions for each of us, scientists have historically had a trying time attempting to define music or understand its effect on us. Suvasini Ramaswamy picks up the strains of the science of music.
Seven years after her first report on the 'vanishing islands' of Sundarbans, Subhra Priyadarshini revisits the fragile delta in the Bay of Bengal to find that it is not just climate change that threatens the existence of this world heritage mangrove tiger-land spread across the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could break a bad habit easily or form a good one? What if people could control obsessive habits? Suvasini Ramaswamy takes a look at the little known science of habits to find out if we have any quick fixes yet.
