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The US Patent and Trademark Office has once again decided that the institute has priority over the University of California and collaborators regarding intellectual property rights for CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in eukaryotes. But the fight over the technique isn’t over.

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Harvard Chemist Found Guilty of Lying About Chinese Funding

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CZI Pledges Billions More Dollars in Science Funding

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Walter Gratzer, Biophysical Chemist and Science Writer, Dies at 89

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Harvard Student Strike a Warning to University

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Evolutionary Biologist Richard Lewontin Dies at 92

Italian Institute Revokes Appointment of Cancer Researcher

Neurobiologist and Former Stanford President Donald Kennedy Dies

Harvard, Yale Investigated for Undisclosed Foreign Funding

Prominent Harvard Chemist Arrested For Concealing Ties to China

More Scientists, Institutions with Links to Jeffrey Epstein

Harvard Teaching and Research Assistants Vote to Unionize

Image of the Day: A Swell Idea

Neurophysiologist, Ethnographer, and World Explorer Dies

Insect-Inspired Sensors Improve Tiny Robot’s Flight

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Confirmed Data Faker

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Harvard Primate Director Resigns

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Harvard Professor Resigns

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The Alpha-Gal Syndrome Story: How Researchers Traced a Red-Meat Allergy to Ticks

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How Cysteine Depletion Drives Cells to Burn Fat 

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Fragments of Lyme Disease Bacteria Linked to Liver Dysfunction

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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The Holy Grail Hunt in De Novo Antibody Design

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July Digest 2025
July 2025, Issue 1

What Causes an Earworm?

Memory-enhancing neural networks may also drive involuntary musical loops in the brain.

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Explore synthetic DNA’s many applications in cancer research

Weaving the Fabric of Cancer Research with Synthetic DNA

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Enhancing Elution of Plasmid DNA

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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