For many teachers, news coverage of education seems to be unrelentingly negative. They say this is particularly noticeable in reporting of results of standardized tests such as NAPLAN and the OECD's Programme for International ...
Education
Aug 20, 2021
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A team of researchers from Verve Therapeutics and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a CRISPR gene-editing technique that lowered the levels of cholesterol in the blood of test ...
With its more than 40 million articles in 301 different languages, Wikipedia is one of the largest human collaboration efforts in history. One of the main pillars on which this wish to bring together the sum of all knowledge ...
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2021
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A team of researchers from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research's (A*STAR) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have developed a CRISPR-based gene editor, C-to-G Base Editor (CGBE), to correct mutations that cause ...
Biotechnology
Mar 11, 2021
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For a slow-growing microbe that multiplies infrequently, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB) has long puzzled researchers as to how it develops resistance to antibiotics so quickly, in a ...
Evolution
Nov 18, 2020
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Politicians and governments are suppressing science, and when good science is suppressed, people die, argues a senior editor at The BMJ today.
Political science
Nov 13, 2020
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For the first time in its 175-year history, US magazine Scientific American has endorsed a White House candidate, saying Tuesday it wanted Democrat Joe Biden to prevail because President Donald Trump "rejects" science.
Other
Sep 15, 2020
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Within a mere eight years, CRISPR-Cas9 has become the go-to genome editor for both basic research and gene therapy. But CRISPR-Cas9 also has spawned other potentially powerful DNA manipulation tools that could help fix genetic ...
Biotechnology
Jul 30, 2020
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Base editors, which enable production of highly efficient targeted point mutations in genomic DNA without causing double-stranded DNA breaks, hold great promise for gene therapy in human disease and trait improvement in crop ...
Biotechnology
Jul 27, 2020
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Biomolecular engineers at Rice University have found a C-worthy technique that dramatically enhances the accuracy of gene editing.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 15, 2020
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