Sarah Iqbal

Sarah Iqbal is a senior research fellow at the department of biochemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, India.

just one instance of exposure was enough to introduce DNA breaks and cause the chromosomes to rearrange themselves. Sponchia/pixabay

Drinking Alcohol Linked to DNA Damage in Cells That Produce Blood

Sarah Iqbal 26/01/2018

An experiment in mice found that the damage once...

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The Kolkata Scientists That Want to Deal With Blindness Using Machine Learning

Sarah Iqbal 04/01/2018

As you feel a series of embossed symbols, a...

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Science Journals Might Be ‘More International’ but Not Their Editorial Boards

Sarah Iqbal 26/12/2017

A strong 'gatekeeper bias' could trap researchers from countries...

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Residents Exposed to Methyl Isocyanate in Bhopal Gas Disaster Continue Showing DNA Damage

Sarah Iqbal 07/12/2017

New tests conducted on those exposed to the chemical...

A flower of the plant Aristolochia indica. Credit: ChanduBandi/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

Substance in Birthwort Plant, Staple of Herbal Medicine, Linked to Liver Cancer

Sarah Iqbal 12/11/2017

As a mutagen, aristolochic acid is more potent than...

These images from February 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in different wavelengths of light – seen as the bright spot that appears on the left limb of the Sun. Hot solar material can be seen hovering above the active region in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. The images were captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Caption and credit: gsfc/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Spotted: A New Small Clue for the Very Big, Very Old Puzzle About Our Sun

Sarah Iqbal 25/10/2017

The temperature of the Sun's surface is 5500º C....

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Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Are in Deep Shit – and So Are We

Sarah Iqbal 04/10/2017

Many sewage treatment plants are not equipped for the...