India faces the heavy burden of air pollution and contains some cities with the poorest air quality in the world. Using the example of Pune, one of the non-attainment cities under the National Clean Air Program (NCAP), ...
N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA methylation has emerged as a regulator of virtually all RNA functions across the domains of life. Among the numerous important functions of m6A, regulation of pluripotency to balance its ...
The Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP) is a large igneous province that originated approximately 65 million years ago and has played a significant role in shaping the Earth’s geological history, contributing to catastrophic ...
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a pandemic metabolic disorder affecting ~537 million adults globally, with ~783 million projected by the year 2045. Type 1 DM (T1DM) and type 2 DM (T2DM) are the two major forms of DM and have ...
The antiquity of goddess worship in the Indian subcontinent dates back to prehistoric times, rooted in the conceptualisation of the goddess as a supreme power or Shakti. In the context of village life, one of the most ...
Electrochemical processes at the electrode–electrolyte interface are broadly divided into charge-transfer and charge-storage phenomena. Charge-transfer reactions, controlled by electrocatalysts, constitute the core of ...
The phenomenon of using architectural heritage as a filming location attracts multiple effects, including site recognition, financial impact, and film-induced tourism, among others. The theorisation of this phenomenon is ...
Carbenes, especially N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), are well-recognised as strong σ-donor ligands for both transition metals and main-group elements. These donor ligands have significantly advanced and transformed the ...
Cell-matrix adhesion is fundamental to cell survival, signalling, and mechanosensing, and its dysregulation is a hallmark of cancer progression. In breast cancer, progressive extracellular matrix stiffening profoundly ...
Lipids are the integral component of membranes and serve key biological functions. The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) acts as a hub for lipid synthesis and transport. VAMP Associated Protein B (VAPB/VAP) is an ER-based, ...
Cell-matrix adhesion plays a vital role in maintaining the juxtanuclear ribbon organization of the Golgi apparatus along microtubules (MTs); however, how adhesion-dependent signalling is coupled to motor-driven Golgi ...
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder marked by progressive loss of motor function. It is a multigenic disease with complex pathophysiology, diverse clinical manifestations and multifactorial ...
Epithelial integrity is maintained through coordinated regulation of cell–cell adhesion, apico basal polarity, and transcriptional programs that preserve epithelial identity. Disruption of these processes underlies ...
Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) and its reverse, Mesenchymal-to-Epithelial Transition (MET), underlie essential physiological processes, such as development and wound healing, while also driving pathological ...
The glycocalyx, a dense layer of glycans on the cell surface, plays a fundamental role in mediating cellular communication, adhesion, and signal transduction. Among its key constituents, heparan sulfate (HS) is a highly ...
Peptides offer several advantages in drug discovery due to their ability to mimic natural biological molecules, enabling high target specificity and potency. Their biological activity is influenced by sequence, structure, ...
In bacterial chemotaxis, methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs) detect environmental cues and initiate a phosphorelay signal. In Myxococcus xanthus, the Frz pathway regulates motility in response to these cues. MCPs ...
Defects play a fundamental role in determining the mechanical behavior of materials.
In crystalline solids, their nature and dynamics are well understood, as dislocations and vacancies mediate plastic deformation. However, ...
Microtubule (MT) polymerization and motor driven transport drive cellular processes like intracellular transport and cell division. In this thesis, we study how physical and chemical factors collectively affect microtubule ...
The advent of genome sequencing technologies has revealed the presence of a myriad of proteins in the mammalian system, many of which are poorly characterised. The presence of these orphan proteins imply that our understanding ...