Science Snack: Epigenetics Epigenetics studies how your environment can turn genes on or off without changing your DNA. It’s like a dimmer switch for your genes, influencing health and aging. #Epigenetics #Genetics

"I learned that any difficult problem can be solved by great effort." Remembering Osamu Shimomura, born #OTD in 1928, who dedicated his life to studying the bioluminescence of the luminous jellyfish Aequorea, and discovered green fluorescent protein, GFP.

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"I have the distinction of being the only chemistry laureate who failed the topic in high school!" - Tomas Lindahl, awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Who will receive the prize this year? Find out in October: nobelprize.org/prizes/about/p…

A new generation of cancer-preventing vaccines could wipe out tumors before they form. Learn more on #WorldCancerResearchDay: scim.ag/8nq News from Science

Yesterday, the FDA approved the first drug for schizophrenia with a new mechanism of action for more than half a century. For more on this mechanism - targeting muscarinic acetylcholine receptors - here's a recent review tinyurl.com/mwpahd99 rdcu.be/dVhpp

"When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer." 96 years ago, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. He received the 1945 medicine prize. #NobelPrize

Vitamin K is a compound that is crucial for blood clotting. Nobel Prize laureate Edward Doisy was the first to produce it in a pure form and established the distinction between vitamin K1 (shown) and vitamin K2. His work was important in treating bleeding in small children.