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Fighting disease with genetically modified bacteria
Several companies are testing whether engineered bacteria can treat conditions that affect the brain, liver and other organs — and ...
Viewpoint: Questioning Nature’s publication of anti-glyphosate letter
On March 21, 2018, Nature published a letter by French journalists Stéphane Foucart and Stéphane Horel, “Risks associated with glyphosate ...
Viewpoint: Golden State Killer case provokes discussion about ethics and DNA
Last week’s arrest of a suspect in the Golden State Killer case in California has highlighted how DNA samples that ...
Viewpoint: European organic industry’s obsession with ‘natural’ threatens CRISPR innovations and hurts the environment
What is nature? What is natural? Philosophers have been arguing about this since antiquity. Supporters of organic farming seem to ...
Are these brain-protecting cells actually contributing to Alzheimer’s?
[Neuroscientist Michael Heneka] and his team had eliminated a key inflammation gene from a strain of mouse that usually develops ...
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 ...
Biodiversity is more than just beauty: ‘It is the very apparatus that holds us steady’
Biodiversity is integral to life, but is more than just a huge number of species: It also represents the variations ...
Deepening the nature v. nurture debate: How hormones impact development in the womb is often most key
Hormones released into an expectant mother's bloodstream may affect the child's intelligence, mental health and susceptibility to stress, among other ...
Farms are not like Eden: The case for aggressive human intervention in agriculture
Farming is controlling nature for our own purposes. There is no utopian state. We should stop trying to restore, recover, ...
To make farming more sustainable, don’t mimic nature — do it better
Behind many efforts to make agriculture more sustainable is the idea that our farming systems need to be more like ...
