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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.
