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This week, the White House published its report on the future of artificial intelligence (AI)—a product of four workshops held between May and July 2016 in Seattle...
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Five months after announcing its intentions to gather genome sequences from 2 million people, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has selected geneticist David Goldstein...
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Geneticist George Church has pioneered methods for sequencing and altering genomes.
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Europe Proposes Copyright Reform to Help Scientists Mine Research Papers
The European Commission has announced long-awaited plans to make it easier for researchers to harvest facts and data from research papers—by freeing the computer...
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Why Scientists Must Share Their Research Code
Many scientists worry over the reproducibility of wet-lab experiments, but data scientist Victoria Stodden's focus is on how to validate computational research:...
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Obama's Science Legacy: Betting Big on Biomedical Science
When president-elect Barack Obama chose physicist John Holdren as his top science adviser in December 2008, some biomedical researchers worried that the pick signalled...
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Replications, Ridicule and a Recluse: The Controversy Over Ngago Gene-Editing Intensifies
A controversy is escalating over whether a gene-editing technique proposed as an alternative to the popular CRISPR–Cas9 system actually works.
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The nsung Heroes of Crispr
When Blake Wiedenheft started studying microbes, his work was both remote and obscure.
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Plan to Synthesize Human Genome Elicits Mixed Response
Proposals for a large public-private initiative to synthesize an entire human genome from scratch—an effort that could take a decade and require billions of dollars...
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Digital Forensics: From the Crime Lab to the Library
When archivists at California's Stanford University received the collected papers of the late palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 2004, they knew right away they...
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1,500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments...
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Uk Graphene Inquiry Reveals Commercial Struggles
The £61-million (US$89-million) National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester, UK, has been open for little more than a year. But a parliamentary...
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The Quiet Revolutionary: How the Co-Discovery of CRISPR Explosively Changed Emmanuelle Charpentier’s Life
Emmanuelle Charpentier's office is bare, save for her computer.
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'minimal' Cell Raises Stakes in Race to Harness Synthetic Life
Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent organism.
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Legal Tussle Delays Launch of Huge Toxicity Database
A giant database on the health risks of nearly 10,000 chemicals will make it easier to predict the toxicity of tens of thousands of consumer products for which...
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Bitter Fight Over Crispr Patent Heats Up
A versatile technique for editing genomes has been called the biggest biotechnology advancesince the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the US Patent and Trademark...
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How to Judge Scientists' Strengths
When the director of a research institute asked his Twitter followers for a practical way to dig out promising candidates from the hundreds of applications sitting...
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Synthetic Biology Lures Silicon Valley Investors
In 2012, Emily Leproust was trying to raise money to start Twist Bioscience, a company that aimed to synthesize DNA more quickly and more cheaply than existing...
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se of Personalized Cancer Drugs Runs Ahead of the Science
As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients' tumours,...
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Private Firms Spy a Market in Spotting Space Junk
The US military has long taken the role of traffic cop in space: monitoring satellites, tracking debris and, in recent years, warning satellite operators and foreign...
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