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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…
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…
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…
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…
4 New elements make their way into the periodic table
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As the scholarly publishing community looks forward to dealing with new developments and emerging trends, researchers the world over brace themselves to better manage…
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…
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…
ORCID (Open Research and Contributor Identifier), a non-profit, community-based initiative aimed at creating unique identifiers for researchers, conducted a survey to…
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…
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…