Disarming Bacteria
25 Apr 2025 under Features&Uncategorized
Govardhan Reddy’s lab seeks to understand how riboswitches work Govardhan Reddy’s career path started as it does for a large number of youngsters in India – with an aspiration to join an IIT. And so he did, by taking up the five-year MSc programme in Chemistry at IIT Bombay. “But I wasn’t sure if I […]
AMR in Soil Bacteria Without Antibiotics
27 Mar 2025 under Focus
Overuse of antibiotics is currently the primary reason for the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Researchers at IISc and Kiel University, however, have shown that AMR can surprisingly be found in soil bacterial communities due to microbial interactions too, driven by a species of predatory bacteria. Published in Current Biology, the study looked at how the […]