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A bioethicist has added his voice to a global plea for a moratorium on heritable genome editing from a group of international scientists and ethicists in the wake of the recent Chinese experiment aiming to produce HIV immune children.

Drug abuse has become an increasingly serious problem all over the world. Could fingerprinting be an appropriate method for determining whether a person has taken drugs?

Uranium, which can cause serious harm to health and the environment, has been an important nuclear fuel. Now, an improved way to remove it from contaminated water has been proposed.

Salk researchers have found, for the first time, that a blood-clotting protein can, unexpectedly, degrade nerves—and how nerve-supporting glial cells, including Schwann cells, provide protection. The findings show that Schwann cells protect nerves by blocking this blood-clotting protein as well as other potentially destructive enzymes released by muscle cells.

The back and forth relationship between insects and their food plants may drive tropical biodiversity evolution as the constant pressure from hungry insects forces plants to innovate: producing new chemicals to protect themselves.

Scientists from HSE University and Yandex have developed a method that accelerates the simulation of processes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), using two neural networks that compete with each other during competitive training.

The multi-country outbreak of Salmonella Poona that has affected young children in France, Belgium and Luxembourg has a common food source - infant formula.

The brain organoids in this study were grown from skin cell biopsies donated by people with neuronal heterotopia, a condition which can lead to intellectual disability and epilepsy.

Changes in our diet have induced bite alterations that resulted in new sounds such as “f” in languages all over the world, contradicting the theory that the range of human sounds has remained fixed throughout human history.

It has been known for decades that cancer cells have an altered metabolism and it is seen in several biochemical pathways. A new article describes an epigenetic injury found in human tumors which created this altered path.