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SciComm Huddle 2024: Bringing India’s science communicators’ together

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By Ankita Rathore, Karishma Kaushik, Sarah Iqbal, Banya Kar
| IndiaBiospeaks
The day-long SciComm Huddle at the recent India Science Festival (ISF) 2024, held on 19 January 2024 at IISER Pune, marked the first in-person SciComm Huddle. It addressed the current state of science communication (SciComm) in India, with a focus on SciComm’s scope, institutional roles, capacity building, and the interface with media, emphasising the need for strategic discussions, diversity, innovative approaches, and rigorous research in the field.
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Novel role of FOXO, a transcription factor, in egg cell development

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By Banya Kar
| IndiaBiospeaks
A recent study by researchers at the National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi, led by Arnab Mukhopadhyay, used C. elegans to show how damage to somatic tissues in the body can influence the development of reproductive cells — particularly eggs. They found that DNA damage signals from uterine tissue can stop egg cell formation through a key FOXO transcription factor, which is a highly conserved protein across different organisms.
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