[]{style=“font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} [Image Source: Serial/Trash]{style=“font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;”} [Skin is not the only thing to wrinkle with age. Our genes also show signs of ageing – a process that can lead to cancer.

[By Lucia Aronica, Max F Perutz Laboratories, Austria]{style=“color: #48474c; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;”} [ ]{style=“color: #48474c; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;”} [Note: Lucia won the first ever Access to Understanding People’s Choice award.

[Additional new funders joining Europe PMC further expand the perspective and scope of the resource.]{style=“font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} [ ]{style=“font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} [Two new funders have today formally announced that they have joined the Europe PMC funders group, and in doing so the outputs of the research they fund will be freely available via Europe

[Image Source: Serial/Trash]{style=“font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;”} [Cancer results from an accumulation of mistakes or abnormalities in genes that normally control cell survival, growth and migration. Genes are the instruction manual for our cells, and when these instructions are altered cells may begin to multiply (proliferate) uncontrollably.

[By Clare Finlay, a PhD student at the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Disease, King’s College London]{style=“font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} [ ]{style=“font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} [Note: Clare was highly commended for her entry. Check back tomorrow to read her brilliant summary on the blog.]{style=“font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;

[Image Source: Serial/Trash]{style=“font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;”} [After centuries of endeavour, scientists and doctors have made great strides towards improving cancer treatment. Nonetheless, while conventional therapy has undoubtedly saved innumerable lives, a worrying number of tumours remain inoperable and incurable by chemo- or radiotherapy.

[By Claire Sand, PhD student at King’s College London]{style=“font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} [ ]{style=“font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} [Note: Claire Sand was highly commended for her entry this year. She was a joint second-place winner in Access to Understanding 2013 competition. Check back tomorrow to read her entry.]{style=“font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;

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[By Aidan Maartens, Post-doc student at the Gurdon Institute ]{style=“background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;”} [ ]{style=“font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;”} [Note: Aidan was awarded third place in this year’s Access to Understa ]{style=“font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;

[Image Source: Serial/Trash]{style=“font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;”} [People have little trouble recognising and following the beat in a piece of music. We can even continue to play the beat in our minds once a song has finished. However, despite the ease with which we carry out such a task, the brain activity which underpins it remains a topic of investigation.]{style=“font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;