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Landmark cancer tumor drug Keytruda hampered by glitches
A landmark cancer drug approved last year seemed to herald a long-anticipated change in the treatment of some tumours: with ...
Tracking the role of tau protein in Alzheimer’s
Jhon Kennedy’s relatives understood the illness they faced. For more than three decades, researchers there have been tracking a genetic ...
Calling for a ‘richer’ global conversation about CRISPR, gene editing
Over the past three years, leading scientists have called for global deliberation on the possible effects of gene editing on ...
Popular fluoroquinolones antibiotic can go haywire in rare cases, causing irreversible nerve damage
Miriam van Staveren went on holiday to the Canary Islands and caught an infection. Her ear and sinuses throbbed, so ...
Viewpoint: Sweeping impact of gene editing demands better way to educate the public
If the history of public engagement surrounding other recent scientific innovations is a guide, efforts to explain the science behind ...
China’s 30-year agricultural miracle: How 21 million Chinese boosted yields and cut fertilizer use
A landmark project to make agriculture more sustainable in China has significantly cut fertilizer use while boosting crop yields on ...
African scientist: Europe’s ‘fear-based politics’ on GMOs hurts developing world’s ability to combat hunger
The need to feed growing populations in developing countries, especially countries in Africa, must be met by increasing the yields ...
Evolution of walking: Primitive fish shows key nerves appeared 20 million years before land animals
The genes and nerve cells that allow people and other mammals to walk around can also be found in a ...
Archaeologist skeptics reject evidence humans settled Americas 130,000 years ago
When researchers made the astonishing suggestion last year that early humans settled the Americas 100,000 years earlier than thought, they asked doubters ...
Glory of plants in 3D: CRISPR gene-editing, imaging technology unlock genetic secrets
Advances in imaging technology — allowing researchers to peer inside plant structures in 3D — mean that biologists are seeking ...
Earliest human relative? Mystery and controversy surround 7-million-year-old femur
When anthropologists meet in France at the end of January, one of the most provocative fossils in the study of ...
Is glyphosate unsafe? European Food Safety Authority rejects accusations of ‘undue industry influence’ in rejecting carcinogenic designation
Editor's note: Bernhard Url is the Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority The job of the European Food Safety Authority ...
Solving a riddle: ‘Dark matter’ DNA shown to influence brain development
A puzzle posed by segments of 'dark matter' in genomes — long, winding strands of DNA with no obvious functions ...
Figuring out what a memory looks like in the brain
[Janice] Chen and her colleagues found something odd when they scanned viewers’ brains: as different people retold their own versions ...
Gene drives: Nature editorial board calls out green groups for ‘unfair attempt to create damaging and polarizing spin’
[A]lthough it might not always be obvious, both critics and advocates of the technique — called a gene drive — tend to agree on ...
How tracing the evolutionary family tree of all female lab mice will help improve medical research
Adam and Eve, a pair of black mice, lived for less than two years and never left their home at ...
What’s next in the long, heated battle over bees and neonicotinoid insecticides?
[S]tudies showing real-world evidence of harm from pesticides in the field have been mounting — and environmental organizations have demanded ...
Could the Arctic Apple be the beginning of a new wave of consumer-oriented GMO foods?
This month, bags of sliced apples will hit grocery-store shelves in the midwestern United States for the first time. Shoppers ...
Bacteria-armed mosquitos approved for US release in fight against Zika, dengue and yellow fever
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the use of a common bacterium to kill wild mosquitoes that transmit ...
Combatants prepping for next skirmish in battle over CRISPR patents
The long-running battle over US patents for CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing continues. On 25 October, the Broad Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts, filed ...
Video: Exploring the possibilities offered by CRISPR gene editing
The CRISPR-Cas9 system has revolutionised gene-editing, but cutting DNA isn’t all it can do. From turning gene expression on and ...
‘Young blood’ infusions may boost cognitive abilities of Alzheimer’s patients
The first controlled, but controversial and small, clinical trial of giving young blood to people with dementia has reported that ...
Keeping aging at bay by killing ‘zombie cells’
[Jan] van Deursen and his colleagues at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, [had] an idea: could killing off these 'zombie' ...
CAR-T engineering of patients’ own T cells for cancer therapy gains traction
The strategy of engineering patients' own T cells for cancer therapy got two major endorsements in late August, one financial ...
23andMe thrives despite long-running conflicts with FDA
[23andMe CEO Anne] Wojcicki set out to disrupt the health-care industry in 2006. Her goal was to put sophisticated DNA ...
What do Germany’s election results mean for GMOs, gene-edited crops?
As Germany reels from an unexpected surge for the far right in the 24 September elections, researchers don’t expect much ...
Tubular cell ‘highways’ could change what we know about cell interactions
[Researcher Yukiko Yamashita’s] group had been studying how fruit flies maintain their sperm supply and had engineered certain cells involved ...
Parkinson’s stem cell treatment shows promise in monkeys–human trials next
Japanese researchers report promising results from an experimental therapy for Parkinson’s disease that involves implanting neurons made from ‘reprogrammed’ stem ...
