Act now on CRISPR babies p.137
Another researcher has announced controversial plans to gene edit babies. The scientific community must intervene.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01786-3
Another researcher has announced controversial plans to gene edit babies. The scientific community must intervene.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01786-3
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The proposal follows a Chinese scientist who claimed to have created twins from edited embryos last year.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01770-x
A French court has ordered the return of 45 dinosaur and animal fossils to Brazil, and will soon rule on the fate of a spectacular pterosaur skeleton.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01781-8
The policy also requires an ethics review for any grant applications to the US National Institutes of Health that involve fetal tissue.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01783-6
Since 1900, nearly 3 species of seed-bearing plants have disappeared per year ― 500 times faster than they would naturally.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01810-6
A German–Russian mission called SRG will detect millions of supermassive black holes, many new to science, and hundreds of thousands of stars.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01831-1
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01789-0
Chromosomal abnormalities are a hallmark of many types of human cancer, but it has been difficult to observe such changes in living cells and to study how they arise. Progress is now being made on this front.
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Fibroblast cells promote the development of rheumatoid arthritis. The finding that two distinct fibroblast populations affect different aspects of the disease in mice has implications for efforts to develop clinical treatments.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01594-9
Humans reached the Americas from northeastern Siberia during the last ice age. Genomic analyses of ancient and modern individuals reveal the history of the peoples who have populated these regions.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01374-5
Only a few types of natural amino-acid residue are used directly by enzymes to catalyse reactions. The incorporation of an unnatural residue into an enzyme shows how the catalytic repertoire of enzymes can be enlarged.
doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01596-7
One type of CRISPR–Cas bacterial-defence system destroys phage and bacterial RNA, which leads to bacterial dormancy. Dormancy is found to limit viral spread, and also protects against unrelated viruses and viral mutants.
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