TS Picks

Consortium pushes for open citation data; Gates Foundation launches open-access publishing platform; Cell Press lifts the veil on papers under consideration; an online widget circumvents some paywalls

Obama administration’s science advisers stick together; “allies confident” NIH Director Francis Collins can dissuade Congress from approving drastic budget cuts; how Brexit may affect scientists

Reacting to the White House budget proposal; tracking “attacks on science”

Gag orders at key science agencies were reportedly given, rescinded, and denied. Meanwhile, scientists say they are organizing a march on Washington. 

Trust in scientific experts; trying open peer review; who will lead HHS?

US elections edition

Theranos’s bad blood tests; presidential science lessons; “three-parent” babies

Forgotten bacterium; talc and cancer risk; innocuous mutations

World leaders agree to fight superbugs; researchers edit human embryos; peer reviewers’ motivations

Human-Neanderthal inbreeding; “personal genetics” is a family matter; studying city-dwelling rats; science reporting without embargoes

Brain’s energy needs and human decision-making; science and the US presidential election; modifying Cas9; regulating lab-made meat, milk

Anti-Zika potential of already-approved drugs; problems with animal studies; recognizing the contributions of grad students and postdocs

Excellence schmexellence; thinking outside the biomedical box; homeopathy journal sunk by self-citation

CRISPR therapy not ready for prime time; FDA drops a scope recall; next-generation sleep research; how to shave an ant

Big win for scientist who appealed grant rejection; human mycobiome in the spotlight; one nutritionist’s early stand against excess sugar; Creative Commons licenses and science publishing

Aedes aegypti genome collaboration unites competitors; DIY CRISPR; Pinterest for academics 

Corrections give belated credit for immunotherapy; mosquitoes have been bugging us long before Zika; the bright side of irreproducibility 

Profile of a CRISPR pioneer; SciHub, open access, and for-profit publishing; improving ecological models

CRISPR-edited animals; reasons for retractions; biotech in Austin

Online manuscript-editing marketplace; backyard bald eagles; “take your child to the lab”