Researchers have attributed the cause of cancer to two factors: heredity and lifestyle. However, environmental risk factors can alter the cancer rates among adult tissues contribute to the…
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2014 has been an exciting year for scholarly publishing. Amidst these times of change, we interviewed experts in the publishing industry from across the world. All of these interviews were published…
Responding to peer reviewer comments requesting for major revisions is indeed a daunting task for most authors! Although this requires a lot of effort, it contributes to improving your paper, making…
2014 has been very busy for the Editage Insights team as he was flooded with questions. These questions have helped us identify some of the major areas of concern for researchers in 2014. Here we…
A team of researchers has created human sperm and egg precursor cells in a lab using a person's skin cells. The team modeled their experiment on the research by stem-cell biologist Mitinori Saitou of…
Researchers have been able to study 2 percent of the human genome in depth, which includes protein-coding DNA sequences. Professor Brendan Frey of the University of Toronto, has developed a “deep-…
Giant sand dunes make up the surface of Titan, Saturn’s moon, and these dunes made of hydrocarbon particles may have existed for thousands of years. According to Ryan Ewing, a geologist at Texas A…
Josephine Joordens, a biologist at Leiden University, found a seashell with a doodle that was made by Homo erectus half a million years ago. Read on to know how this discovery has raised speculations…
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Quick facts about the journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Graphene is the world’s thinnest and strongest material, made of a single sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal honeycomb pattern. But a team of researchers has discovered graphene’s ability…