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UK organisations release annual statistics for use of animals in research

Jul 13, 2023

This coincides with the publication of the Home Office’s report on the statistics of scientific procedures on living animals in Great Britain in 2022. The ten organisations carried out 1,434,403...

Hollywood actors poised for strike after studio talks end without deal

Jul 13, 2023

A "double strike" of actors and writers, not seen in Hollywood since 1960, would bring nearly all US film and television productions to a halt. Actors are demanding better pay,...

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Jul 13, 2023

A "double strike" of actors and writers, not seen in Hollywood since 1960, would bring nearly all US film and television productions to a halt. Actors are demanding better pay,...

African Phase I HIV vaccine trial shows encouraging preliminary results

Jul 12, 2023

All the components of the vaccine candidate were well tolerated by the participants with no serious adverse events reported. HIV-CORE 006 took place at four vaccine trial sites in Kenya,...

Study reveals new mechanism for rapid evolution of multi-drug resistant infections in patients

Jul 12, 2023

The researchers used a combination of genomic analyses and antibiotic challenge tests to quantify within-patient bacterial diversity and antibiotic resistance. Most patients in the study (approximately two thirds) were infected...

How to Survive a Blackout in a Heat Wave

Jul 12, 2023

But when it comes to climate-related disasters, one fear often rises above the rest: a blackout during a heat wave. There’s another possibility that has been quietly discussed by emergency...

Unborn babies use ‘greedy’ gene from dads to ‘remote-control’ mums into feeding them extra food

Jul 12, 2023

The unborn baby ‘remote controls’ its mother’s metabolism so the two are in a nutritional tug of war. In pregnant mice, scientists selectively altered the signalling cells in the placenta...

The sound of silence? Researchers prove we can hear it

Jul 12, 2023

The fact that these silence-based illusions produced exactly the same results as their sound-based counterparts suggests that people hear silence just as they hear sounds, the researchers said. If you...

Researchers grow precise arrays of nanoLEDs

Jul 12, 2023

The researchers used this to fabricate arrays of nanoscale light-emitting diodes (nanoLEDs) — tiny crystals that emit light when electrically activated. To do so, they create a nanoscale template with...

MIT physicists generate the first snapshots of fermion pairs

Jul 12, 2023

But when electrons pair up, they can rise above the fray and glide through a material without friction. But first, scientists will have to understand how electrons pair up in...