Researchers at the University of Bath in the U.K. and their colleagues have successfully reprogrammed mouse sperm with mitotic cells. The team’s results, published in Nature Communication this week (September 13), show that “this ability is not restricted to eggs at the time of fertilization,” Hugh Clarke, a developmental biologist at McGill University in Montreal who was not involved in the work, told The Scientist in an email.
Journal publishers, public information officers, and reporters who tried to access the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) press release distribution service EurekAlert this week were met with a message describing a security breach. Last week, AAAS believes, the site was hacked. Usernames and passwords were compromised. The Scientist this week spoke with the journalist who first alerted AAAS to the breach, and EurekAlert administrators who said the site would be rebuilt and online again soon.
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