Sixty-year-old ampoule contains smallpox DNA, and it is unclear whether the virus is viable.
Smallpox,
officially preserved in two repositories worldwide, may have been
sitting alive and well in an unsecured US government refrigerator. On 8
July, …
New podcast with Eppendorf Award 2014 winner, Madeline Lancaster Nature is the partner for the Eppendorf Award for Young
European Investigators. This year the prize was awarded to Madeline
Lancaster for her work showing that complex neuronal tissues resembling
early states of fetal human brain can be created in vitro from pluripotent stem cells.
This week on the Nature Podcast, a new Archaeopteryx
skeleton wears feather ‘trousers’, a story on predicting teenage binge
drinkers, and how the First World War ushered more women into science
but still left them battling for equality.
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