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

Umesh Prasad -
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...
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Centromere sizes determine Unique Meiosis in Dogrose   

Umesh Prasad -
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...
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Sukunaarchaeum mirabile: What Constitutes a Cellular Life?  

Kamakhya P. Seal -
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...
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BIOLOGY

The Science of Brown Fat: What more is Yet to be Known?

Rajeev Soni -
Brown fat is said to be “good". It is known that it plays an important role in thermogenesis and maintains body temperature when exposed...
BIOLOGY

Human Proteome Project (HPP): Blueprint Covering 90.4% of the Human Proteome Released

Umesh Prasad -
Human Proteome Project (HPP) was launched in 2010 after successful completion of Human Genome Project (HGP) to identify, characterise and map human proteome (the...
BIOLOGY

PHF21B Gene Implicated in Cancer Formation and Depression has a Role in Brain Development too

Rajeev Soni -
Deletion of Phf21b gene is known to be associated with cancer and depression. New research now indicates that timely expression of this gene plays...
BIOLOGY

Story of Coronaviruses: How the ‘’novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)’’ May Have Emerged?

Rajeev Soni -
Coronaviruses are not new; these are as old as anything in the world and are known to cause common cold among humans for ages....
BIOLOGY

A Novel Method for Real Time Detection of Protein Expression 

SCIEU Team -
Protein expression refers to the synthesis of proteins within cells using information contained in the DNA or gene.  Proteins are responsible for all the biochemical...
BIOLOGY

‘Central Dogma of Molecular Biology’: Should ‘Dogmas’ and ‘Cult Figures’ Have Any Place in Science?

Rajeev Soni -
‘’The central dogma of molecular biology deals with the detailed residue-by-residue transfer of sequential information from DNA to protein via RNA. It states that...
BIOLOGY

Molecular Origin of Life: What Formed First – Protein, DNA or RNA or a Combination Thereof?

Rajeev Soni -
‘Several questions about origin of life have been answered, but much remains to be studied’’ said Stanley Miller and Harold Urey way back in...
BIOLOGY

How the Mysterious ‘Dark Matter’ Regions of Human Genome Influence Our Health?

Rajeev Soni -
The Human Genome Project revealed that ~1-2% of our genome makes functional proteins while the role of the remaining 98-99% remains enigmatic. Researchers have...
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