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The United Nations body is about to elect a new director‑general. The choice will affect the entire globe for years to come.

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Outbreak worsens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as virus spreads into Uganda.

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The goal is to create the continent’s first cross-disciplinary guidelines for collecting, storing and sharing data and specimens.

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The modified scanner also requires less radioactive exposure, vastly broadening its applications.

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Scientists hope that insects such as stink bugs could keep the fall armyworm in check.

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Detailed analysis of misconduct investigations into huge research fraud suggests institutional probes aren’t rigorous enough.

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Female mate choice in some species selects for traits that are harmful to males. A hypothesis to explain how such mating preferences might evolve puts the spotlight on sex chromosomes.

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Potent microbial toxins found in shellfish are possible starting points for drug discovery, but analogues are needed for biological testing. Toxin-modification enzymes now suggest a new approach for producing these analogues.

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Inflammasomes are protein complexes that fight infection by driving inflammation or cell death. It now seems that the protein NEK7 provides a ‘licence’ for the formation of inflammasomes containing the protein NLRP3.

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