ResearchHub’s Promise to Reinvent Publishing and Why it is Set for Failure
After ResearchHub’s recent announcement of a fresh investment of $5 million from BoostVC, we asked why have we so far never taken a deeper look...
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Scientific publishing and the tools around it – preprints, peer review, open access, and the software researchers use to read and cite.
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CRISPR as a Recorder of Molecular Activity
Researchers from Harvard University have succesfully proved that CRISPR can work as a recorder of molecular events. Synthetic DNA molecules introduced in bacteria over a...
Basic Research
An Exclusive Scientific Meeting Gives Birth to the Genome Project-Write
A select group of researchers from top American universities gathered last month in an invitation-only meeting at Harvard to discuss the need of technology and an...
Bioengineering
Anti-CRISPR Proteins from Prophages Discovered in Proteobacterial Genomes
Researchers from the University of Toronto and the University of Otago have discovered five new proteins that block the bacterial CRISPR/Cas immune system. The anti-CRISPR proteins are...
Basic Research
CRISPR/Cpf1 Edits Mice Embryos Without Off-Target Effects
Researchers at the IBS Center for Genome Editing in South Korea have successfully created mutant mice using CRISPR/Cpf1. The alternative to the well-known CRISPR/Cas9 system can...
Bioengineering
Ultrashort Laser Pulses Reduce Off-Target Effects of Radiotherapy
Researchers from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India have developed an innovative technique to cause DNA damage in a controlled manner. Short, intense pulses...
Cancer Research
Bacterial Hair Conducts Electricity and Could Be Used in Bioelectronic Devices
Scientists from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Holy Cross, and Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that the filaments present in the surface of Geobacter...
Bioengineering
Miniaturized Microscopes Allow Unprecedented Observation of Spinal Cord Cells
Astrocytes, a kind nervous cells that do not conduct electrical signals, react to sensations. Thanks to tiny microscopes developed at the Salk Institute, researchers have discovered...
Imaging