05 – 11 October 2015
DNA repair bags the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair". The discovery of these details came from the research going on for curing cancer. Find source
Elephants are immune to Cancer
This mammal have a fleet of 20 copies of a gene called TP53. While only one copy of this gene is reported in human. This gene is involved in DNA repair mechanism; fault in which causes cancer in most of the cases. Find source
Rise of the "bad" journals
Concern over faulty or fake journals and publishers is rising very high. These "Predators Journals" have published 420,000 papers last year with cost of US$178 per article through highly questionable peer reviewing and publication athics. Find source
Get your genome sequenced in a single Day
Quite astonishingly, scientists have developed a method to completely sequence human genome in 26 hours. Earlier the fastest record time for DNA sequencing was 50 hours. Find source
Smoking and Alcohol get you age faster
This study found that cigarette smoking and heavy alcohol use cause changes to DNA that reflect accelerated aging in measurable ways. Now a strong relationship is found between tobacco and alcohol use and premature aging. Find source
