Y-shaped biomolecules called antibodies are scientific workhorse tools that researchers use to bind to and track specific proteins.Credit: Nemes Laszlo/Science Photo LibraryCatalogue entries for more than 100 antibodies sold by the research services and supply company Thermo Fisher Scientific contain...
Stress has widespread effects on the brain.Credit: K H Fung/Science Photo LibraryAcute stress makes it difficult to link memories of past events with fresh information, a study1 suggests. The results help to explain why people struggle to show insight under...
When clinical scientist Grace Hallinan relocated from Ireland to the United States in 2018 for a postdoctoral position, she immediately felt that something was missing.“I moved to the US, and the apartment was just lonely and sad,” recounts Hallinan, who...
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a public health emergency of international concern on 17 May.Credit: Jospin Mwisha/AFP via GettyScientists are racing to trial experimental treatments and potentially...
A lab at the University of Indiana Bloomington is under scrutiny from the US Department of Agriculture.Credit: Michael Hickey/GettyBiologists at Indiana University (IU) Bloomington have been locked out of their laboratories for more than a week, after the university suddenly...
Research laboratories are weighing up the costs and benefits of paying for artificial-intelligence tools.Credit: J Studios/GettyJames Zou has spent “well over US$100,000” on artificial intelligence in the past year. “These models are very useful for researchers, for coding, for analysis,...
Chantle Edillor 00:08I believe that the creativity, you know, the uniqueness of the perspectives that I had, you know, it allowed me to identify unique opportunities in subjects that no one was thinking about in that way.David Payne 00:24This is...
Ethics statementThroughout this study, we took care to follow relevant ethical standards. The use of sock puppet accounts is an established research technique for investigating personalization and bias on internet platforms12,24,45, provided it is strictly for noncommercial, public-interest purposes and...
Gynaecological disorders such as endometriosis could be studied using endometrium organoids.Credit: fizkes/ShutterstockResearchers have developed organoids that can regenerate like the endometrium, the lining of the uterus that sheds and re-forms during the menstrual cycle. The team used the miniature 3D...
