{"id":117302,"date":"2026-08-05T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=117302"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:43:12","slug":"national-centre-for-cell-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-centre-for-cell-science\/","title":{"rendered":"National Centre for Cell Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>National Centre for Cell Science Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) study uncovers nearly 200 previously undocumented microbial strains, showing that a healthy gut is shaped by diet, geography, and lifestyle and why India needs its own microbiome map.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About National Centre for Cell Science\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>autonomous organisation aided by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was established to <\/span><b>facilitate cell biology research<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located on the <\/span><b>campus of Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maharashtra.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Origin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The institute traces its origin to the <\/span><b>National Tissue Culture Facility (1986<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and was established as the <\/span><b>National Facility for Animal Tissue and Cell Culture Collection (NFATCC)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>1988<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>renamed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Centre for Cell Science <\/span><b>(NCCS) in 1996.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>tripartite mandate <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of NCCS includes the following as its key functions:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To serve as a <\/span><b>National Cell Repository.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To perform <\/span><b>basic research in cell biology.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human resource development through <\/span><b>teaching and training.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NCCS is engaged in <\/span><b>cutting-edge research in the diverse areas <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of modern cell biology, broadly categorized as\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Cell Biology and Cancer Biology.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Structural Biology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Bioinformatics, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Omics.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Infectious disease<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s, <\/span><b>Immunology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and Microbiology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Neurobiology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &amp; <\/span><b>Stem Cell Biology.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research addresses challenging health issues like <\/span><b>cancer, infectious disease<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s, <\/span><b>metabolic disorders,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>regenerative medicin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e through approaches that integrate modern and conventional disciplines.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The institute<\/span><b> hosts a National Cell Repository<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that <\/span><b>maintains and distributes <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">well-characterized<\/span><b> animal cell lines<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to various colleges, universities, and research institutions in India at affordable costs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NCCS <\/span><b>hosts the DBT-funded National Centre for Microbial Research <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for collecting, identifying, <\/span><b>preserving, and distributing microbial cultures <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from various ecological niches across the country.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NCCS has the <\/span><b>third-largest microbial collection in the world.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News<\/b><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/health-wellness\/scientists-discover-new-gut-bacteria-species-indian-tribal-communities-10818291\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>IE<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Centre for Cell Science is an autonomous organisation aided by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":117296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9269],"class_list":["post-117302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-national-centre-for-cell-science","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117327,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117302\/revisions\/117327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}