On 4 Nov 2022, IndiaBioscience and NMKRV College for Women, Bengaluru co-organised a one-day seminar for undergraduate and post-graduate students and faculty, featuring talks on the upcoming areas of biology by scientists in the city. In this article, Vijeta Raghuram, Program Manager-Education, IndiaBioscience, Priya R, a faculty at the Department of Biotechnology of the College, and Suma S, a student of the College share highlights of the event and why such events are essential for undergraduate students and educators.

The Infosys Prize awardees this year were felicitated on 7 January, 2023. They represent the different disciplines of Engineering and Computer Science, Humanities, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. The awardees have been recognised and lauded for extraordinary contributions in their respective fields.

The 5^th National Post-Doc Symposium (NPDS), a three-day event, was held from 20-22 July 2022 at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM). It was organised by the Post-Doctoral Fellows Association (PDFA) at the Bangalore Life Science Cluster (BLiSc) and members of IISER-TVM. This article discusses the highlights and recommendations emerging from the symposium.

Seven teams of scientists will take science outside labs to students with the goal of facilitating scientific temper and curiosity. With funding support and mentoring by the third IndiaBioscience Outreach Grant, these initiatives are poised to create engaging scientific content - comics, videos, virtual labs, and much more.

Science festivals can be great platforms to motivate people to science. This January, the Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology (FAST India), a non-profit private entity, conducted a virtual mode, two-week-long science festival called India Science Festival 2022. The free-for-all annual event received a whopping global response. More than fifty carefully crafted events fascinated the all-age-group participants and inspired them to engage in science. Here are excerpts from the mega event.

A team led by Avinash Bajaj develops a fluorescent probe to detect mycobacteria from human tissue samples. Lekha Bandopadhyay reports on this study.

A new study performed by a team of researchers from various parts of India, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt shows that citrate-functionalized Mn₃O₄ nanoparticles can effectively treat chronic kidney disease.