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Research Councils UK (RCUK), a partnership of the UK's seven Research Councils, completed three years of operation in India this October. Nature India talks to the founding director of RCUK India Alicia Greated to find out what's in store for UK-India science collaborations in days to come.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has postponed its decision on destruction of smallpox virus stocks till 2014. Nature India discusses this with Kalyan Banerjee, former director of National Institute of Virology in Pune and adviser to WHO's Variola Virus Research Committee.
On Women's Day, Kaiser Jamil, former president of the Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS) based in Trieste, Italy, talks to Nature India about issues facing women scientists.
Snake venom toxin researcher R. Manjunatha Kini, a professor at National University of Singapore and founder of a couple of companies working on venom therapeutics, spoke to Nature India on his love for all things toxin.
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Professor at the Machine Intelligence Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award, 2010, instituted by India's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). She spoke to Nature India on her work — application of computer-based models to decipher the secrets of miRNAs — and on being a woman scientist.
Wildlife Trust of India Chairman and conservation expert M. K. Ranjitsinh, a scion of a former royal family of Gujarat, talks about exploitation of animals by erstwhile royalty, the Wildlife (Preservation) Act of 1972, which he helped draft, and the morality of animal conservation in poor countries.
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, honored with Germany's August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann Medal for chemistry last month, has been reappointed chairman of Science Advisory Council to Indian PM Manmohan Singh (SAC-PM). Nature India caught up with him.
K. Anantha Padmanabhan, Mercator Professor of DFG (German Research Foundation) at the Institute of Materials Physics, University of Muenster, Germany and a former director of IIT Kanpur speaks to Mohit Kumar Jolly on 'superplastics', science education and doing science in India.
Craig C Mello, the 2006 Nobel prize winner for Medicine and Physiology is known for his revolutionary ideas on social change. A firm believer in 'out of the box' ideas, he tells Nishaki Mehta and Nidhi Malhotra what triggers a child's interest in science, how parents could spur this interest and the limitations of the present education system. This is the last in a three-part interview series.
In the second part of this three-part interview series, Craig C Mello, the Nobel Laureate for Medicine and Physiology 2006, reveals to Nishaki Mehta and Nidhi Malhotra some trade secrets that could make young scientists great collaborators and lab leaders.
On 31 August 2006, Craig C Mello was awarded a 'No-Bell' by one of his students at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. A month and a half later, it presaged the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. Mello along with colleague Andrew Fire of Stanford University School of Medicine opened a new window on the cell with his discoveries related to RNA interference. Nishaki Mehta and Nidhi Malhotra caught up for a brief chat with the 47-year-old American scientist. Here's the first part in the three-part interview series.
Do politicians understand the language of science? Father of the Green Revolution in India M S Swaminathan, now a Member of Parliament, tells Subhra Priyadarshini what he does to bridge the gap between science and politics.
