30 November – 06 December 2015 Agricultural pesticides have been reported to decrease lung functions in children Pesticides used in agriculture have been testified to have adverse associations with respiratory health in 7 year old children. Find source No feeling of pain anymore Transgenic mice have been developed with the mutation that prevents from …
23 – 29 November 2015 Studying Suicide A study is trying to determine what happens in the brain when a person attempts suicide, and what sets such people apart. The results could help researchers to understand whether suicide is driven by certain brain biology. Find source Call for WHO reforms A panel of physicians, scientists and …
Advancements in Life Sciences has started its third volume this November. This issue includes review and research papers from fields of Biotechnology, Health, and Agriculture. This time we majorly picked articles from agriculture and biotechnology along with representation of health chapter. All of the contents can be accessed openly. Enjoy reading! Volume 3, Issue 1 (25 November, 2015) Selection of potent bacterial …
16 – 22 November 2015 Manipulatable Electronic plants are reality now Researchers have developed bionic plants with digital electronic circuits inside them, which can aid in studying plant physiology in addition to genetically engineering plants. Find source Artificial Bionic vocal cords made in lab Scientist have successfully grown functional vocal cord tissue in a laboratory …
09 – 15 November 2015 Countries with highest spending on health A list featuring countries spending the highest fortune on health is revealed this week. US is first on the chart with more than $8000 amount per capita on account of health. Find source Glyphosate (herbicide) causes cancer. No it doesn't. European Food Safety Authority …
02 – 08 November 2015 First success of the CRISPR gene editing technology Gene editing is becoming increasingly popular in research and clinical trials. This time gene editing helped push a 1-year-old girl’s leukemia into remission. This is the first case of cancer cure through CRISPR technology. Find source Human Chimeras. Yes or No? NIH …
25 October – 01 November 2015 Reproducible Biomedical research Research and results that cannot be reproduced is one of the most debated issues in science. Academy of Medical Sciences, jointly with the BBSRC, MRC and Wellcome Trust from UK have jointly released a report on the issue. Find source DNA evidence could bust the wrong …
19 – 25 October 2015 A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease A woman from Scotland rightfully claims that she can smell Parkinson's disease. She had husband who died of this illness. During a long term stay with him she noticed a change in his smell from normal to something different. This news has …
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 …
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12 – 18 October 2015 Unverified cell lines are major cause of irreproducible research A survey published in Bio Techniques has claimed that 52% of the biomedical researchers don't confirm what exact cell lines they are using in their experiment due to money and other constraints. This fact makes more than half of the …
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