Government report flgs ‘lapses ‘ in Nagaland bat study

Government report flgs ‘lapses ‘ in Nagaland bat study

Subject : Science & tech

Context : More than a year after a probe into a filovirus study of bats in Nagaland by the Bengaluru-based National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), the government has concluded that there had been “concerning lapses” in the conduct.

Concept :

About NCBS

• National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, Karnataka, is a research centre specialising in biological research.
• It is a part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) under the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India.
• The mandate of NCBS is basic and interdisciplinary research in the frontier areas of biology.
• The research interests of the faculty are in four broad areas ranging from the study of single molecules to systems biology.
• NCBS focuses on fundamental research from diverse fields of biology including Biochemistry, Biophysics, Bioinformatics, Neurobiology, Cellular Organization and Signalling, Genetics and Development, Theory and Modelling of Biological Systems, Ecology and Evolution etc.

Filovirus

• Filoviruses belong to a virus family called Filoviridae.
• Filovirus is a filamentous RNA virus of a genus which causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates.
• 3 genera of this virus family have been identified: Cuevavirus, Marburgvirus and Ebolavirus.