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Some scholars claimed that fragments of an ancient Koran may predate the accepted founding date of Islam by the Prophet Muhammad. Now, the ancient Koran is sparking intense debate among the experts with one saying that the manuscript’s writing belongs to a slightly later era.

Radiocarbon dating of the parchment leaves, which are held by the University of Birmingham in the UK, was performed in a University of Oxford lab in late 2014. The results of the dating stunned everyone when it was found that the leaves were dated to a period between 568 AD and 645 AD. Muhammad is generally believed to have lived between 570 AD and 632 AD, said experts.

World's largest public stem cells bank has been opened in California. Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) of Madison and its partners has opened the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine hPSC Repository having 300 stem cell lines aimed at 11 common diseases and disorders.

By February 2016, the bank expects to have at least 750 lines. Jonathan Thomas, head of the governing board of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, said, "We believe the bank will be an extraordinarily important resource in helping advance the use of stem cell tools for the study of diseases and finding new ways to treat them".

On Wednesday, a US study suggested that a cancer-killing therapy that engineers a patient's own immune cells for wiping out chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has displayed long-term success in a group of individuals.

According to experts, the approach is on the cutting edge of a growing field called immunotherapy. The therapy coaxes the body to kill off cancer. They said that it might revolutionize oncology someday by bringing the use of toxic chemotherapy to end.

The University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center and Perelman School of Medicine developed the method, called CTL019, and reported the first long-term results on 14 initial patients.

Pornhub.com, one of the world's most popular pornography sites, has offered a new $US25, 000 college scholarship, formally known as the Pornhub Cares Scholarship. All the applicants, who want the scholarship, need to write a 1000-1500 word essay answering the question, 'How do you strive to make others happy?'

Besides this, students are also required to submit a two-to-five minute video, elaborating the good work they do, and anything else they want to say. This famous adult entertainment website has presently 78.9 billion reported online video views annually.

The financial offer has come under fire and has been criticized for being a potentially 'deceptive marketing tactic'.

New evidence suggested that skipping sleep at night can have a number of bad effects on your health. Researchers said that people who sleep six hours a night or less are four times more likely to catch a cold as compared to those who snooze for over seven hours.

Since a long time, poor sleep has been associated with chronic illness and even premature death. The researchers said the study, published online Monday and in the September issue of the journal Sleep, provided first proof that links less sleep and the risk of infectious sickness.

California prison authorities shared that a prison inmate has died last week at Marin General Hospital near San Francisco from natural causes. Ronald Harold Seaton, 69, had spent 26 years on death row for murder.

It is the fourth case this year in California that has not carried out an execution since 2006. In California, death penalty is technically legal. But due to legal challenges involved with the state's lethal injection practices has led inmates to be in jail until their natural deaths.

It has been found that 69, including this case, have died of natural causes while being on death row, and 24 inmates have committed suicide. There are 747 others who have been waiting execution and are at San Quentin, in Marin County near San Francisco.