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A recent toast to James Watson highlights a tolerance for bigotry many want excised from the scientific community.

Women with metastatic cancer who were treated with a checkpoint inhibitor had a smaller benefit than did men.

Moderate ultraviolet light exposure boosts the brainpower of mice thanks to increased production of the neurotransmitter glutamate.  

As the first personalized cell and gene therapies are approved from small clinical trials, researchers propose the creation of publicly accessible databases to pull together real-world results.  

In an in vitro study, the compound completely blocked the replication of rhinoviruses.

Injecting molecules from a sea slug that received tail shocks into one that didn’t made the recipient animal behave more cautiously. 

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Bigger, older mothers produce disproportionately more eggs than their smaller counterparts do.

The Atlantic has been free of intense air-gun blasts to probe for oil and gas for 30 years, and researchers fear for endangered North Atlantic right whales and other animals.

DNA evidence points to Asian amphibians as the source of a fatal disease that has been wiping out frogs across the globe.  

Sequencing of a single gene can spot patients with a dangerous form of mycosis fungoides better than other prognostic tests.  

Analyses of more than 300 ancient human genomes show that Hepatitis B virus has infected humans for at least 4,500 years and has much older origins than modern viral genomes would suggest.