Increasingly, agricultural scientists in Asia and Africa are using the gene-editing tool CRISPR to develop disease-resistant, high-yield crop varieties. Many, especially those in government research laboratories, are underestimating the importance of the patent and licensing rules that surround tools such...
Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli has presented evidence that her lab has not worked with close relatives of SARS-CoV-2.Credit: Johannes Eisele/AFP...
Nature, Published online: 04 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03846-9The discovery that peptides from myelin proteins in the brain help the immune system’s...
By the time you receive this I will be dead. Hopefully not dead dead, but close enough. And for a...
Nature, Published online: 28 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03534-8Four researchers who left Serbia to pursue their careers rely on this group to...
Nature, Published online: 25 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03772-wIn 1984, scientists made a crystalline alloy that had a seemingly impossible arrangement of...
David Posner (at lectern) introduces his plan to bring students from Mexico’s Vasco de Quiroga University to Cambridge, UK, for...
By the end of 2023, there were around 43 million refugees globally. But many more — roughly 68 million people...
Large brains place extra demands on nerve cells.Credit: Science Pictures Ltd/SPLHumans have evolved disproportionately large brains compared with our primate...
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