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With a built-in supply of a powerful cocaine-chomping enzyme, the transplant might also curb addiction.

Pharma companies are more compliant in posting results compared to universities.

The awards for comical but practical scientific discovery also include cannibalism and self-colonoscopy.

The journal undertook a self-assessment, finding men have more success than women with all-male review panels.

The plastic ingredients BPS and diphenyl sulfone cause chromosomal abnormalities, and the effects can last for generations.

The Vertebrate Genomes Project has released data on 14 vertebrate species, but the goal is to sequence all 66,000.

The hybrid cells promote tumor heterogeneity and possible metastasis, a new study in mice and humans shows.

Lab mice suffering from inexplicable renal failure turn out to be infected with a hitherto unknown virus.

The researchers catalogued 3,893 variants of the gene implicated in cancer using CRISPR.

A mouse study details a method called VIVO that predicts the accuracy of any guide RNA.

The country is the second in Africa to permit cannabis cultivation, but months after approval there’s been little uptake by farmers and no scientific proposals.

This year’s winners are C. David Allis, Michael Grunstein, John Glen, and Joan Steitz.