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A fierce legal battle has ensued between two research groups over the patenting rights of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique. CRISPR, short for ‘clustered regularly…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 15, 2016
With science becoming increasingly competitive, every published paper is seen as a step up the ladder of success. Thus, blocking or delaying publication of an academic…
- Kakoli Majumder
- January 8, 2016
While the phenomenon of retraction has received a lot of attention from the scientific community, what has not received enough eyeballs are retraction notices. Most…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 7, 2016
On December 30, the US-based International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), announced that the claims of discovery of elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 were…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 6, 2016
As the scholarly publishing community looks forward to dealing with new developments and emerging trends, researchers the world over brace themselves to better manage…
- Editage Insights
- January 5, 2016
Last year, we shared with you the most common questions researchers asked us on our Q&A Forum and noticed that a lot of researchers found this list helpful. So…
- Kakoli Majumder
- December 31, 2015
December has been an eventful month for science. This post lists some of the most interesting news items handpicked by our team of editors. From the historic climate…
- Editage Insights
- December 29, 2015
ORCID (Open Research and Contributor Identifier), a non-profit, community-based initiative aimed at creating unique identifiers for researchers, conducted a survey to…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 29, 2015
Nine Italian researchers and a public official, who were working to control the spread of a deadly bacterium that kills olive trees, have been accused of worsening the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 23, 2015
In December 2014, Nature Publishing Group had launched a content sharing initiative as a trial for one year using ReadCube. NPG has announced the success of the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 21, 2015