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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Ancient DNA rebuts traditional interpretation of Pompeii   

Umesh Prasad -
Genetic study based on ancient DNA extracted from the skeletal remains embedded in the Pompeii plaster casts of the victims of volcanic eruption of...
BIOLOGY

Fork Fern Tmesipteris Oblanceolata has The Largest Genome on Earth  

SCIEU Team -
Tmesipteris oblanceolata , a type of fork fern native to New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific has been found to have the genome size of...
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

aDNA research unravels “family and kinship” systems of prehistoric communities

Umesh Prasad -
Information about “family and kinship” systems (which is routinely studied by social anthropology and ethnography) of prehistoric societies is unavailable due to obvious reasons. Tools...
BIOLOGY

DNA Can be Read Either Forwards or Backwards

Rajeev Soni -
A new study reveals that bacterial DNA can be read either forwards or backwards due to the presence of symmetry in their DNA signals1....
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...
PERSONALITY

Did the Nobel Committee Err in NOT Awarding Rosalind Franklin the Nobel Prize for the Discovery of Structure of DNA?

SCIEU Team -
The double-helix structure of DNA was first discovered and reported in the journal Nature in April 1953 by Rosalind Franklin (1). However, she did...
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...
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