National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)

Subject: Science and technology

Section: Biotechnology

Concept:

From papers dating back to 1913 to a 1986 letter of support from Manmohan Singh to MS Swaminathan, a temperature-controlled space at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bengaluru tells the story of the evolution of scientific work in India over the course of a century.
This centre houses 24 collections comprising more than 1,50,000 scientific objects – paper based manuscripts, negatives, photographs, books, fine art, audio recordings etc.

National Centre for Biological Sciences

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.