Elsevier's updated journal article sharing and hosting policy that provides specific guidelines about how papers can be shared at each stage of the publication process is being criticized by open…
A successful open access publishing company Frontiers has stirred a controversy over editorial independence. 31 editors of two of its journals have accused the company of denying them editorial…
Europe's biomedical research is threatened by the European Citizen’s Initiative’s (ECI) Stop Vivisection proposal. However, several science organizations and 16 Nobel laureates are defending the…
The footage of zebrafish's 'inner ear' development by Dr. Mariana Muzzopappa of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona; and Jim Swoger of the Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona …
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Should germline modification – a gene-editing technique – be allowed on human embryos? This ethically laced question has generated much hype and discussion among geneticists.
The 2015 Abel Prize was awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters to two prominent mathematicians: John Nash and Louis Nirenberg. The Abel Prize, considered by some to be ‘the Nobel of…
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