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European scientists have taken down the HeLa genome after publishing it without the consent of Henrietta Lacks’s family.
Texas’s top officials have authorized the state's troubled cancer research institute to award $71.8 million in recruitment grants that have been on hold since last December.
The country’s fertility regulator reported that the technique has “broad support.”
The US government has come out with new rules for life science research deemed risky.
The small organ evolved too many times for it to be an accident, but it’s still unclear what it does.
Under new plans to reduce the European Union’s overall spending, science funding did relatively well, but research leaders want more—and they may well get it.
A small insect-eating animal is the common ancestor of whales, elephants, dogs, and humans.
A new study disputes findings of a 2011 analysis suggesting that black researchers are funded less than their equally qualified white peers.
More than 140 nations agree to a plan to limit global mercury emissions.
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