Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Bose Institute, Kolkata. Chemical Biologist, RT≠endorsement, Tweeting in a personal capacity.
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Basudeb Maji retweeted
#OneDayOneReasearch
A new CRISPR breakthrough from @bose_institute!
Scientists developed GlowCas9, a protein that lights up during gene editing—allowing to track #CRISPR activity in living cells in real time.
@DrJitendraSingh @karandi65
🔗dst.gov.in/new-light-track-g…
Basudeb Maji retweeted
I would strongly advise every American leader and policymaker to listen carefully to @davidrliu - the most important scientist and innovator of our lifetime and the person who invented both Base editing & Prime editing - the 2 top leading modalities of Gene editing, when he describes in @60Minutes the grave danger which the American BioTech ecosystem is facing due to insufficient federal funding. America is already losing its technological and innovative edge! $BEAM $PRME
Tonight’s episode of @60Minutes will include a segment on the impact of federally funded science and recent cuts to science funding. Our lab’s development of base editing and prime editing and their clinical applications will be among the work described in the episode. paramountpressexpress.com/cb…
Basudeb Maji retweeted
We Have Won! No one can use ‘ORS’ on their label unless it’s a WHO-recommended formula.
This is the story of Dr. Sivaranjani Santosh, a braveheart paediatrician from Hyderabad, who fought for 8 years against sugar-rich drinks falsely marketed as ORS.
Her persistence led to FSSAI’s landmark order, protecting children and patients from misleading claims.
“These drinks had 10x the sugar WHO recommends, worsening diarrhoea and complications in millions of kids,” she explains.
This victory is not just hers, but belongs to everyone who stood with her — doctors, advocates, parents, and citizens demanding truth in labeling.
Scroll down to see how her 8-year battle changed the game for public health and children across India.
Credits : drsivaranjanionline on IG
#HealthVictory #PublicHealthIndia #ChildSafety #TruthInLabelling #FSSAI #DoctorsForChange #IndiaFightsBack
[ORS Ban India, Dr Sivaranjani Santosh, FSSAI Order, Public Health Victory, Sugar Drinks Misleading Labels]
We are excited to share our latest article on the engineered, thermostable GlowCas9 (CRISPR) system in Angewandte Chemie. A big congratulations to all the authors, especially Arka, for leading the work.
#CRISPR #GenomeEditing #Cas9 #BoseInstitute
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In this work, we took the glow from a fish and made the CRISPR enzyme stable, glow-bright for genome engineering and therapeutic tracking applications. We are more happy to show that our system can outperform WTCas9 for gene knock-in repair with any sequence at any genomic locus.
The coolest thing is that we knocked-in ACHARYA (J C Bose) at the EMX1 locus, in HEK293ZT cells. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Thanks #DBT #DST #CSIR for funding.
Basudeb Maji retweeted
Scientists @bose_institute, an autonomous institute of @IndiaDST, developed a smart molecular tool that can aid plants facing rising temperatures and infections.
@DrJitendraSingh @karandi65
A New ‘Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats’ (CRISPR) technology can help plants outsmart heat and disease
Read here: pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail…
Basudeb Maji retweeted
The CRISPR family’s most versatile member has made its medical debut: a cutting-edge gene-editing technique known as prime editing has been used to treat a person for the first time
go.nature.com/4kqr3RK
Basudeb Maji retweeted
Last night I was honored to receive the 2025 #BreakthroughPrize in the Life Sciences, reflecting the efforts of many students, collaborators, doctors, and patients in labs around the world. I hope this 4-minute excerpt can inspire when science needs public support more than ever.
Basudeb Maji retweeted
Grateful to have our work featured in RSC’s 2025 International Women’s Day Collection. Grateful for the guidance of my supervisor Dr @Basudebmaji and the unwavering support of my family and friends.
Celebrating women in nanoscience! #RSCNano #IWD2025 #WomenInSTEM #WomenInTPD
To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay2025 the nanoscale journal family have collated some excellent research led by women scientists published in the journals last year.
Read the collection for free until 8 April 2025
🔗pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/art…
Basudeb Maji retweeted
We are excited to report the discovery of TIGRs, a widely-occurring RNA-guided system found in bacteria and their viruses. TIGRs consist of a peculiar repeat region which is transcribed into RNA and processed into multiple guide RNAs to direct TIGR-associated proteins to their DNA targets. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Basudeb Maji retweeted
p53 is tightly regulated with instability and a short lifetime. Paradoxically, cells need p53 JUST NOW in the nucleus when DNA damage arises @DebalinaDatta1 @ambuja_n other members showed cells use p53 condensates for temporal storage and functions doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads04…
Basudeb Maji retweeted
My lab at Emory University in vibrant Atlanta is looking for a postdoc candidate in #mitochondrialbiology and #metabolism. This position offers training opportunities in #metabolomics using our in-house Agilent 6546 QTOF LCMS. Please spread the word! (1/3)
Basudeb Maji retweeted
Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Director, Indian Statistical Institute graced the occasion by her intriguing D.M. Bose Memorial Lecture titled :" Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences: A Synergistic Relationship".@IndiaDST @DrJitendraSingh @karandi65 @PIB_India
Congratulations, @SadiyaTanga!!
Grateful to receive the Best Poster Presentation Award at the BIAS 2024
Thankful to my mentor, Dr. Basudeb Maji, for his guidance
Honored to present my work on NA-TACs and receive the award from Prof. Kaustav Sanyal, Prof. Sankar Kumar Pal, and Prof. Anuradha Lohia
#phdlife
Basudeb Maji retweeted
Grateful for the opportunity to present my poster at the 7th TPD & IP It was a rewarding experience to share my work TPD and engage with the leading scientists in the field. Thank you Women in TPD for all the support.
#TPD #PROTAC #bifunctionalmolecules #7thTPD #womeninTPD
Basudeb Maji retweeted
The rule also applies to non-degree institutions like @bose_institute where students need to register under universities for getting their PhD degrees. As the universities are bound by the rules (!!!) set by the @ugc_india , it tickles down to the institutes that have to rely on
Basudeb Maji retweeted
Cysteine-independent CRISPR-Associated Protein Labeling for Presentation and Co-delivery of Molecules Toward Genetic and Epigenetic Regulations (B. Maji et al.) @Basudebmaji onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Looking for a Project Assistant in Organic Chemistry immediately. Please get in touch or recommend.
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