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Chernobyl Fungi as Shield Against Cosmic Rays for Deep-Space Missions 

In 1986, the 4th unit of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (erstwhile Soviet Union) suffered massive fire and steam explosion. The unprecedented accident released over 5% of the radioactive...

Centromere sizes determine Unique Meiosis in Dogrose   

The dogrose (Rosa canina), the wild rose plant species, has a pentaploid genome with 35 chromosomes. It has an odd number of chromosomes, yet it...

Sukunaarchaeum mirabile: What Constitutes a Cellular Life?  

Researchers have discovered a novel archaeon in symbiotic relationship in a marine microbial system that displays an extreme genome reduction in having a highly stripped-down...

Editing Gene to Prevent Inheritable Disease

Study shows gene editing technique to protect one’s descendants from inheritable diseases A study published in Nature has shown for the first time that a human embryo...

Interspecies Chimera: New Hope For People Needing Organ Transplant

First study to show development of interspecies chimera as a new source of organs for transplants In a study published in Cell1, chimeras - named after...

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Chernobyl Fungi as Shield Against Cosmic Rays for Deep-Space Missions 

In 1986, the 4th unit of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine...

Myopia Control in Children: Essilor Stellest Eyeglass Lenses Authorised  

Myopia (or near-sightedness) in children is a highly prevalent...

Dark Matter in the Centre of our Home Galaxy 

Fermi telescope made clean observation of excess γ-ray emission...

Lead Poisoning in Food from certain Aluminium and Brass Cookware 

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NISAR: The New Radar in Space for Precision Mapping of Earth  

NISAR (acronym for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar or NASA-ISRO...