Postdocs, she noted, are the «lowest paid class of terminal degree» holders despite their central role in academic research: 43 % of first authors of articles in Science are postdocs, she observed. (sciencemag.org)
The research was made possible thanks to the contribution of Dr Jinging Chen (IOR)-- first author of the article published on Nature Genetics — and to Andrea Cavalli of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB, USI Faculty of Biomedical Sciences), in cooperation with other Swiss, Spanish, and English research centres. (sciencedaily.com)
«The repair mechanism ensures that mutations do not accumulate in the genome, particularly in exons,» explains Joan Frigola, PhD student and first author of the article together with postdoc Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan. (sciencedaily.com)