Nature News
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Biologists create more precise molecular scissors for genome editing
Engineered Cas9 enzyme makes fewer mistakes.
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‘Digital chimp’ trove preserves brains of retired apes
NIH to fund a cache of brain tissue and online data in place of live-animal experimentation.
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Leap-second decision delayed by eight years
Some want to scrap adjustment that keeps atomic time in sync with Earth’s rotation.
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Freefall space cubes are test for gravitational wave spotter
Europe’s long-awaited LISA Pathfinder spacecraft has two metal cubes at its heart, which it will attempt to isolate from every force except for gravity.
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Leukaemia success heralds wave of gene-editing therapies
Layla, a one-year-old girl with leukaemia, is in remission thanks to gene-editing technology that allowed her to receive modified immune cells from another person.
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The tapeworm that turned into a tumour
A tapeworm that infected a Colombian man deposited malignant cells inside his body that spread much like an aggressive cancer, researchers have reported in a bizarre, but not unprecedented, case.
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Zombie physics: 6 baffling results that just won’t die
When a scientific result seems to show something genuinely new, subsequent experiments are supposed to either confirm it — triggering a textbook rewrite — or show it to be a […]
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Does innovation always come from science?
Pure science does not always stimulate innovation — rather, technological change often springs naturally from human inventiveness. Writer Matt Ridley makes this provocative point in a 23 October essay in […]
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Dead star spotted eating planetary leftovers
The remnants of a destroyed planetary system have been seen orbiting and feeding a dead star — a fate that will probably befall our own Solar System.