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Nobel Prizes for Bio-Chemistry: A Bright Year for the RNA WorldLightning has struck twice on the RNA research field this year. Both Nobel Prizes for physiology/medicine and for chemistry have chosen discoveries in RNA researches as the winning topics. This may reflect a belief that, if there is no chemistry in life, then life is too dull.
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Is Semi-Conservative DNA Replication Invalid?
A recent publication in Nature Cell Biology has generated a lot of excitements as well as imaginations. Some even used observations reported in this study to challenge the validity of semi-conservative DNA replication. However, is the so-called “confirmation” of “immortal” DNA hypothesis a support for the so-called “conservative” DNA replication or a total misunderstanding?
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Are Stem Cells Really Immortal Cells?
Stem cells are believed to be immortal. However, literature evaluation suggests this conventional wisdom may be wrong. In contrast, increasing scientific evidence and logical reasoning on objective observations suggest that stem cells are mortal, just like any other cells.
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A Typical Unethical and Untruthful Peer Review
A manuscript challenging the immortality concept in stem cell research was submitted to Stem Cell but was rejected on the ground of “low novelty”. The reviewers created some problems for the manuscript but none of them are true. The unjustified rejection of this manuscript is exposed here to show why secret peer review can at least sometimes be very harmful to scientific progress.
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Harvesting Nobel Prizes for Citation Laureates: Another Year of No Yield
Despite using somehow improved selection criteria Thomas/ISI again failed to correctly predict any of this year’s Nobel Prize winners. This repetition of a largely consistent failure of citation laureates to harvest real Nobel Prize should teach us a lesson that, in evaluating the true significance of a scientific work, citation may count very little or none at all.
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