‘Neuromorphic computing is going to be a rock star’: How brain-inspired chips could may soon guide robots and drive cars

‘Neuromorphic computing is going to be a rock star’: How brain-inspired chips could may soon guide robots and drive cars

Robert Service | 
The algorithms that underlie everything from Alexa’s voice recognition to credit card fraud detection typically owe their skills to deep ...
Can advertisers invade your dreams?

Can advertisers invade your dreams?

Sofia Moutinho | 
[B]rands from Xbox to Coors to Burger King are teaming up with some scientists to attempt [to] “engineer” advertisements into ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why I dropped out of a COVID vaccine trial midway through

Viewpoint: Here’s why I dropped out of a COVID vaccine trial midway through

Martin Enserink | 
I’ve been wrestling with a dilemma the past few weeks: Do I stay in the COVID-19 vaccine trial I’ve been ...
In Brexit unwind, England will break this month from restrictive EU gene-edited crop rules, clearing pathway for CRISPR produce and livestock

In Brexit unwind, England will break this month from restrictive EU gene-edited crop rules, clearing pathway for CRISPR produce and livestock

Erik Stokstad | 
When Boris Johnson became prime minister of the United Kingdom in 2019, he pledged to “liberate the U.K.’s extraordinary bioscience ...
20 year anniversary of the mapping of the human genome: What does the future hold?

20 year anniversary of the mapping of the human genome: What does the future hold?

The coalescence of bioinformatics and computational biology around algorithms has... given rise to new institutional forms and new markets for ...
On the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s The Descent of Man, scientists break down his theories on race and sex

On the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s The Descent of Man, scientists break down his theories on race and sex

Erika Milam | 
To mark the 150th anniversary of The Descent of Man, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva has gathered a team of experts, mostly ...
Human behavioral ecology: The tight ‘evolutionary embrace’ of culture and genes

Human behavioral ecology: The tight ‘evolutionary embrace’ of culture and genes

Kim Hill, Robert Boyd | 
[Research by Toman Barsbai and colleagues shows] that adaptation to local ecological conditions is an important determinant of variation in human ...
400 children worldwide are born each year with ‘fast-aging disease’ – Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome. Now CRISPR offers hope

400 children worldwide are born each year with ‘fast-aging disease’ – Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome. Now CRISPR offers hope

Jocelyn Kaiser | 
[R]esults from a new study have inspired hope for treating children born with progeria, a rare, fatal, genetic disease that ...
Could the world be dealing with COVID-19 in all its mutations for decades to come?

Could the world be dealing with COVID-19 in all its mutations for decades to come?

Jennie Lavine, Ottar Bjornstad, Rustom Antia | 
We are currently faced with the question of how the CoV-2 severity may change in the years ahead. Our analysis ...
Dogs and humans migrated together across the ancient world, DNA evidence shows

Dogs and humans migrated together across the ancient world, DNA evidence shows

David Grimm | 
Dogs are one of the biggest enigmas of domestication. Despite decades of study, scientists still haven’t figured out when or where ...
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With studies showing questionable efficacy, why did Gilead’s remdesivir become the first FDA-approved COVID treatment?

Jon Cohen, Kai Kupferschmidt | 
On 8 October, [Gilead] inked an agreement to supply the European Union with its drug remdesivir as a treatment for ...
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The 5-minute COVID-19 test is here

Robert Service | 
Researchers have used CRISPR gene-editing technology to come up with a test that detects the pandemic coronavirus in just 5 ...
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1 in 7 COVID patients have genetic flaws that dramatically increase their vulnerability

Meredith Wadman | 
[S]cientists baffled by [COVID-19’s] ferocity have wondered whether the body’s vanguard virus fighter, a molecular messenger called type I interferon, ...
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German measles likely jumped from bats to humans, much like COVID, raising concerns about future virus outbreaks

Ann Gibbons | 
An estimated 100,000 newborns are affected by the [rubella virus] annually, mostly in Africa, the western Pacific, and the eastern ...
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‘Desperation is not a strategy’: Slew of low quality studies clouds picture of how to confront COVID-19

Marilynn Marchione | 
Desperate to solve the deadly conundrum of COVID-19, the world is clamoring for fast answers and solutions from a research ...
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‘It’s not premature to plan’: Deciding who gets the coronavirus vaccine first

Jon Cohen | 
The new coronavirus’ disproportionate toll on the elderly could put them at the front of the line [for a vaccine] ...
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Another pandemic? New swine flu identified in China could jump to humans

Jon Cohen | 
[A] new finding that pigs in China are more and more frequently becoming infected with a strain of influenza that ...
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How widespread is the pandemic? Proposed global blood bank could provide missing answers

Robert Bazell | 
Michael Mina is out for blood—millions of samples, which a nascent effort dubbed the Global Immunological Observatory (GIO), would monitor ...
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Polio vaccines are inexpensive, easily available, already approved—and they might work wonders against COVID-19

Recent reports indicate that COVID-19 may result in suppressed innate immune responses. Therefore, stimulation by live attenuated vaccines [such as ...
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‘It’s been so chaotic’: US government ‘Operation Warp Speed’ may not be focusing on developing the most promising COVID-19 vaccines

Jon Cohen | 
When the news broke [June 3] that Operation Warp Speed had selected five experimental COVID-19 vaccines to fast-track through testing ...
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Cells that fight pathogens might also speed up human ‘inflammaging’

Mitch Leslie | 
Our T cells let us down as we age, becoming weaker pathogen fighters. This decline helps explain why elderly people ...
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‘Psychobiotics’: Can we control the way we think by altering gut bacteria?

Elizabeth Pennisi | 
The allure is simple: Drug development for neuropsychiatric disorders has lagged for decades, and many existing drugs don’t work for ...
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‘Operation warp speed’ hopes to turbocharge US quest for a coronavirus vaccine

Jon Cohen | 
Conventional wisdom is that a vaccine for COVID-19 is at least 1 year away, but the organizers of a U.S ...
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Scouring coronavirus patient genes to answer a question: Why do some people get deathly sick, when others don’t?

Jocelyn Kaiser | 
COVID-19, caused by the new pandemic coronavirus, is strangely—and tragically—selective. Only some infected people get sick, and although most of ...
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Identical sex chromosomes could be key to a long life

Erin Malsbury | 
When 109-year-old Jessie Gallan was asked about the secret to her long life, she replied “staying away from men.” Other ...
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Consciousness is subjective. Does that mean it can’t be rigorously studied?

Tam Hunt | 
The science of consciousness has enjoyed a renaissance in the last couple of decades and the study of our own ...
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Failed HIV vaccine study is ‘another frustrating defeat’ in the fight against AIDS

Jon Cohen | 
The failure-ridden search for a vaccine that can stop the AIDS virus has delivered yet another frustrating defeat. The HIV ...
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