More refined AI models, advancements in human gene editing and the continuing impact of the Trump Team on science — we run ...

AI technologies need to be safe and transparent. There are few, if any, benefits from being outside efforts to achieve this.

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Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to ...

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In September 2015, representatives of 193 nations met in New York City to tackle the globe’s biggest problems. They broke these down into 169 targets under 17 broad goals, such as ending hunger and ...

Erratum Published: 12 February 2014 Erratum: Commensal microbe-derived butyrate induces the differentiation of colonic regulatory T cells Yukihiro Furusawa, Yuuki Obata, Shinji Fukuda, Takaho A. Endo, ...

Protein folding is the process by which proteins achieve their mature functional (native) tertiary structure, and often begins co-translationally. Protein folding requires chaperones and often ...

Gene regulation refers to the mechanisms that act to induce or repress the expression of a gene. These include structural and chemical changes to the genetic material, binding of proteins to specific ...

Spintronics is the use of a fundamental property of particles known as spin for information processing. In many ways, spintronics is analogous to electronics, which instead uses the electrical charge ...

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