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Researchers at the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill pharmacy claim to have succeeded in transforming skin cells into cancer-hunting stem cells that have the ability not just to counter but destroy brain tumors known as glioblastoma.

The discovery is being seen as a major breakthrough in medical science, something that can offer a new and more effective treatment for cancer. In most cases, cancer treatment has strong side effects and patients face many health issues after treatment.

Although Ebola outbreak has been declared over, many people who survived the fatal infection may have long-term brain health problems, warned a new study. It has been found that survivors who were successfully treated for Ebola were found having health issues, such as headaches, memory loss, vision problems and infected semen, even after six months.

Researchers from the United States found that many Ebola outbreak survivors experienced these common symptoms, while in some cases, the patients were suicidal. The new findings have come following a statement by London’s Royal Free Hospital where it said that a British nurse, named Pauline Cafferkey, has been hospitalized for treatment for a ‘late complication’ from the deadly disease.

The Senate confirmed Wednesday that Dr. Robert M. Califf will be the new commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In a vote of 89 to 4, cardiologist Califf has won the race to be the next FDA Commissioner.

The decision in favor of President Barack Obama’s pick has come after a few months of opposition from some lawmakers who tried their best to block Califf’s nomination. In their speeches, they even urged other lawmakers to vote against Dr. Califf, a clinical researcher from Duke University.

Last week, a commercial angler captured a bighead carp around the New Ulm area. It is largest noticed till date in the region as weighs 25 pounds. Minnesota has been struggling to control the spread of invasive carp. The carp has already invaded Twin Cities, now it seems that they are marching westward through the Minnesota River.

DNR Invasive Fish Coordinator Nick Frohnauer announced on Wednesday that they have suspected bighead carp in the Minnesota River from the Mississippi River. He has termed their discovery disappointing. “It is just an individual, which is in keeping with how we’ve caught them before. So it’s a single one which indicates it’s not an established or reproducing population”, said Frohnauer.

Gravitational waves were discovered by astronomers a few weeks ago and it marked 14 years of hard work of the team associated with the project. The waves were detected through instruments that were developed to detect signals with a diameter of 1/1000 of a proton. However, a continuous study of gravitational waves will require a less complex and cost effective method of examining them.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a definitive 2013 report that there had been an actual slowdown of global warming during the last 15 years. The report noted that the warming rate during the period from 1998 through 2012 was less than the rate noted since 1951, but the body has also warned that because of natural unpredictability, trends based on short records were quite sensitive to the starting and end dates and generally don’t reflect long-term climate trends.

The thought about a global warming slowdown or ‘pause’ was continually cited by climate change skeptics and deniers after 2013 but the notion has been challenged by some of the recent scientific reports.