Two new AI tools check for errors in research papers including in the calculations, methodology and references.Credit: Jose A. Bernat Bacete/GettyLate last year, media outlets worldwide warned that black plastic cooking utensils contained worrying levels of cancer-linked flame retardants. The...
The main historical building on the campus of the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.Credit: Gibson Green/AlamyIn an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific...
Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin Icon Books (2025)What is it with toilets? In domestic households, men and women use the same ones without a fuss, but at some point in history it became...
Adam Levy 00:02 Hello, I’m Adam Levy, and this is Mind matters: academia’s mental health crisis, a podcast from Nature Careers. In this episode: rethinking academia. This is the eighth and final episode of this special series looking at the...
If the number of on-camera screams is any indication, Kim Kardashian’s first encounter with epigenetics was a thrilling one.The reality-television star and her family shrieked and squealed in the season finale of The Kardashians in Los Angeles, California, last July...
CLINICAL BRIEFINGS 21 February 2025 Through comprehensive genomic and immune analyses, mechanisms of lung cancer resistance after treatment with EGFR inhibition and vaccine therapy were investigated. This case report, together with data from the longitudinal lung cancer study TRACERx, highlight...
Human clinical datasetsThe intratumoural multi-region sampling cohort for various cancer types utilizes RNA-seq data from the following studies: this paper, for multi-region sampling of GBM and LGG; ref. 24, for multi-region sampling of hepatocellular carcinoma; ref. 23, for multi-region sampling of hepatocellular...
Cave-bat fieldwork often looked like a scene from the 1995 film Outbreak.Credit: Warner Bros/AJ Pics/AlamyFor years, I was a bat ecologist, fully immersed in the grind of data collection and publications. My research on cave-bat conservation took me to remote...
James Collins, Andrés Cubillos-Ruiz and Raphaël Gayet co-founded the biotechnology company Florey Biosciences.Credit: Andrés Cubillos-Ruiz’s wife was four months pregnant when she received a course of antibiotics to prevent invasive bacteria from taking up residence in her gums, following a...
Monica Saavedra advises people on how to move from academia into industry.Credit: National Institute of Agricultural BotanyLambda Agri, based in Cambridge, UK, develops advanced materials to convert incident high-energy (ultraviolet, or UV) light into lower-energy (red) light efficiently. The applications...
