The U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruled today in favor of the Broad Institute in the high stakes battle over who will control the…
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A pharmacy employee waits for customers at a drugstore in Caracas. CREDIT: CARLOS GARCIA RAWLINS/REUTERS/Newscom
On top of its currency being in free fall for 3 years running, empty shelves at supermarkets, and electricity rationing, Venezuela has a serious shortage…
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Evidence suggests long-term use of the birth control pill doesn’t harm fecundity. CREDIT: crankyT/iStockphoto
Shortly after then–President-elect Donald Trump announced on 5 January that he planned to appoint Katy French Talento to his Domestic Policy Council as his health…
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Michael Eisen—an evolutionary biologist who studies flies at the University of California, Berkeley, a co-founder of the pioneering open-access journal Public Library of Science, and…
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A patient arrives in an isolation ward during a 2014 outbreak of deadly Lassa fever in Sierra Leone. Credit: Lam Yik Fei/Contributor/Getty Image
A coalition that aims to develop new vaccines for emerging infectious diseases has nearly half a billion dollars in its coffers and its first three…
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Crippling just three of the malaria parasite’s 5000 genes could create a powerful, safe vaccine against a disease that sickens nearly 200 million people each…
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Polo star Adolfo Cambiaso with six clones of Cuartetera he rode at the Argentine Open this week. Courtesy of Alan Meeker
Last Saturday, at a prestigious match in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo, polo player Adolfo Cambiaso rode six different horses to help his team win.…
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Scientists have found several proteins that stop the Cas9 enzyme (white) from cutting DNA. Credit: Val Altounian
In an episode of the resurrected X-Files TV show that ran earlier this year, aliens attack Earth with a bioweapon based on CRISPR, the genome-editing…
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University of California attorney Todd Walters addresses the three judges presiding over the CRISPR patent hearing. Credit: Dana Verkouteren
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA—A long line began to form an hour before the doors opened this morning for a hearing at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office…
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