Nature
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Ending hunger: Researchers are giving smallholder farmers the wrong advice, study claims
How can research help to end hunger? One way to answer this question is to assess published research on hunger, ...
Can we use DNA to sketch the faces of criminals?
Most labs studying DNA phenotyping look for relationships between changes to individual letters of a person’s genetic code, known as ...
Asians and Blacks dramatically under-represented in medical research, distorting drug therapy effectiveness
A 2018 analysis of studies looking for genetic variants associated with disease found that under-representation [of minorities] persists: 78% of ...
How animals think
Neuroscientists wanting to understand the brain’s coding language have conventionally studied how its networks of cells respond to sensory information ...
Why is it so difficult to battle antibiotic resistance?
Before COVID-19, antibiotic resistance was estimated to kill at least 700,000 people each year worldwide. That number could now climb ...
Older coronavirus victims 350 percent likelier to experience symptoms than 10-19 year olds
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown a markedly low proportion of cases among children. Age disparities in observed cases could be ...
Another pandemic coming? Expanding land use boosts exposure to diverse zoonotic diseases, study finds
Land use change—for example, the conversion of natural habitats to agricultural or urban ecosystems—is widely recognized to influence the risk ...
When CRISPR gene editing falls short: ‘Base editing’ might treat disorders on the maternal line in mitochondrial DNA
[A] technique — which builds on a super-precise version of gene editing called base editing — could allow researchers to ...
GMO insect-resistant Bt prevents cancer and saves farmers up to $167 million per year, study shows
Previous field studies have reached no collective consensus on whether Bt corn, the most commonly planted transgenic crop worldwide, has ...
Infographic: Animal origins or lab leak? Tracing coronavirus back to the source
Since the pandemic began, the question of where the coronavirus came from has been one of the biggest puzzles. It ...
Infographic: 8 ways we can defeat the coronavirus
More than 90 vaccines are being developed against SARS-CoV-2 by research teams in companies and universities across the world. Researchers ...
Genetic analysis unravels East Asia’s history, highlighting migration of early farmers
Ancient genomics is starting to unravel the history of East Asia. The first large-scale studies of ancient human genomes from ...
Anti-vaccine online movement targeting undecided groups in social media, spreading disinformation about safety and coronavirus containment efforts, study warns
As scientists work to create a vaccine against COVID-19, a small but fervent anti-vaccination movement is marshalling against it. Campaigners ...
‘A radical idea’: Could a single factor be responsible for all mental illnesses?
What are the roots of mental illness? In the hope of finding an answer, scientists have piled up an enormous ...
Why isn’t there an ‘accelerated pathway’ for approving treatments during a pandemic?
Commercial biopharmaceutical discovery is a less than ideal vehicle for responding to an outbreak of a new viral pathogen spreading ...
Will genetically improved crops be enough to sustainably feed a booming global population?
A growing, increasingly affluent and urban human population is driving demand for more food grown in more-sustainable ways. ... Sustainable ...
Searching for coronavirus ‘antidote’ in the blood of former patients
Hospitals in New York City are gearing up to use the blood of people who have recovered from COVID-19 as ...
100 best-selling nutrition books give ‘puzzling’ advice, and few written by experts, study shows
Nutritional decisions may be important for health, and yet identifying trustworthy sources of advice can be difficult to achieve. Many ...
China will test African swine fever vaccine on 10,000–20,000 pigs to ensure it won’t spread virus
Researchers in China have developed an experimental vaccine that can protect pigs for life from a lethal virus that has ...
Viewpoint: To protect genetic privacy, it’s ‘crucial’ that we develop an international code of conduct
Genomics researchers worldwide are increasingly dealing with vast data sets gathered by consortia spanning many countries. Most are unclear on ...
‘Excitement is finally catching on’: Why RNA editing may be more promising than CRISPR
CRISPR editing — at least as a therapeutic technique in people — has turned out to be more difficult than ...
GMO Golden Rice meets safety standards set by Philippines, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, assessment shows
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) persists as a major public health nutrition problem, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Severe ...
We can sustainably feed 3.4 billion people. Study shows 4 eco-friendly farming practices will help produce food for 10 billion
Global agriculture puts heavy pressure on planetary boundaries, posing the challenge to achieve future food security without compromising Earth system ...
Developing a ‘kill switch’ to make CRISPR gene editing more precise—and safer
[Microbiologists] stumbled onto tools now known as anti-CRISPRs. These proteins serve as the rocks to CRISPR’s molecular scissors. And soon, ...
Quest to understand sense of touch could lead to new treatments for chronic pain
If she wasn’t looking at her limbs, the girl didn’t seem to have any clue where they were. She lacked ...
‘Search and destroy’: Precision stem cell treatments could be safer against blood cancers
Scientists are experimenting with ways to selectively target the body’s blood-making cells for destruction. Early studies in animals and people ...
Post-Green Revolution study: Projected crop yields unable to feed the world by 2050, we need GMOs, gene editing and other ‘genetic strategies’
The current trajectory for crop yields is insufficient to nourish the world’s population by 2050. Greater and more consistent crop ...
CRISPR immunizes rice, staple crop consumed by billions, against devastating bacterial infection
Genome editing has made one of the world’s most important crops resistant to a devastating bacterial infection. ... The researchers ...
