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BIOLOGY

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...
BIOLOGY

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...
BIOLOGY

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...
BIOLOGY

How Male Octopus Avoid Being Cannibalised by Female  

Umesh Prasad -
Researchers have discovered that some male blue-lined octopuses have evolved a novel defence mechanism to avoid being cannibalised by the hungry females during reproduction....
BIOLOGY

Multiple Dinosaur Trackways Discovered in Oxfordshire

Umesh Prasad -
Multiple trackways with about 200 dinosaur footprints have been discovered on a quarry floor in Oxfordshire. These dates to the Middle Jurassic Period (around...
AGRICULTURE & FOOD

“Horizontal Gene Transfers” between fungi led to Outbreaks of “Coffee Wilt Disease” 

Umesh Prasad -
Fusarium xylarioides, a soil-borne fungus causes “Coffee wilt disease” that has a history of causing significant damages to coffee crops. There were outbreaks of...
MEDICINE

Mesenchymal Stem Cell (MSC) Therapy: FDA Approves Ryoncil 

SCIEU Team -
Ryoncil has been approved for the treatment of steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease (SR-aGVHD), a life-threatening condition that may result from blood stem cell transplantation...
BIOLOGY

De-extinction and Species preservation: New milestones for resurrection of Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger)

Umesh Prasad -
The thylacine de-extinction project announced in 2022 has achieved new milestones in generation of the highest quality ancient genome, marsupial genome editing and new...
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