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Correction : For @India_Alliance Basic Early Career Fellowship, the listing with the deadline of 10 April of DBT/WT India Alliance’s Early Career Fellowships was incorrect and the call closed on 16 March 2026. The link with the correct deadline- indiabioscience.org/orgs/the-wellc…

This article highlights how IITs, IISc, CSIR labs and more are building scalable, creative nanomedicine pathways—often using sustainable materials—towards more accessible cancer care in India.

Across India, scientists are pushing QD innovation in exciting ways: mango-leaf QDs for imaging + therapy, battery-waste QDs for low-cost biosensors, watermelon-based QDs for cancer imaging, and exosome-coated QDs for targeted treatment.

Read: Quantum dots in India’s cancer research landscape (buff.ly/rgJowXZ) by Nida Farooq. Quantum dots—tiny, glowing nanoparticles—are reshaping India’s cancer research landscape. From earlier detection to precision diagnostics, these “nano-lanterns” can illuminate disease signals inside cells long before symptoms appear. About the image: This illustrative image was created by the author with the assistance of Gemini, “Banana” image generation.

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@SathyabamaSIST is organising a Cardiac Cell Culture and Advanced Molecular Techniques. 🗓️24 & 25 April 2026 More details 👇 indiabioscience.org/events/cardiac…

Welcome back to #ScienceJobsTuesday, a weekly thread where we bring a curated list of jobs, grants, and events relevant to the Indian life science community 👩‍🔬 @DBTIndia @IndiaDST @India_Alliance @serbonline

@MitraSiuli Beyond the talks, the real impact of #YIM2026 was in the connections formed—collaborations, mentoring relationships, and networks that strengthen India’s growing life sciences ecosystem.

@MitraSiuli From funding and research leadership to balancing academic life, #YIM2026 brought together young investigators, postdocs, mentors, and institutional leaders from across India and beyond—creating space for honest discussions about building independent research careers.

What does it mean to build a scientific career today? In her reflection on #YIM2026, IndiaBioscience Executive Director @MitraSiuli shares how mentorship, collaboration, and candid conversations shaped the Young Investigators’ Meeting in Pune. Read more: buff.ly/TtLhfd7 @DBTIndia @BricDbt @symbiosistweets @GITAMUniversity @iitjodhpur @DBT_inStem @Jain_Lab @Sudiya14 @harinath_d @manjulaharikri2 @MoumiMazumdar @sreshthamondal

And it doesn’t stop at physics. From stripes and spots (Turing’s morphogenesis) to biological rhythms, π quietly shapes form through lawful constraint—allowing pattern and uniqueness to coexist.

π is often taught as a shortcut for circles… but it’s deeper than measurement. It’s the ratio between straightness and curvature, the constant that appears whenever space bends, closes, or cycles. From gravity and waves to fields and symmetry, π shows up by necessity, not coincidence.

Happy Pi Day! (14 March) 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟 π 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭—𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞? In From curvature to creation (buff.ly/6Zs7SPu), Sabahat Fida explores how numbers once lived at the intersection of science, philosophy, and meaning. #PiDay #Science