Novartis dismissed the top two scientists at its gene therapy division shortly after CEO Vas Narasimhan learned of internal data falsification that has since snowballed into a damaging scandal, a person familiar with the situation said Wednesday. Read more in statnews.com
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Daniela Salvatori (recently appointed as Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht University and Central Animal Facility, LUMC) and Beerend Hierck (Anatomy teacher LUMC) have received a 22k grant from the Gratama foundation. Their research aims to develop dynamic holographic 3D models. Read more in Utrecht University News
Once, a diagnosis of extensively drug-resistant TB meant quick death. A three-drug regimen cures most patients in just months. Read more in nytimes.com
California wants to make it clear that tinkering with your own genes is a “don’t try this at home” sort of thing. Read more in vox.com
Ebola may soon be a “preventable and treatable” disease after a trial of two drugs showed significantly improved survival rates, scientists have said. Read more in bbc.com
Microbes that dwell in nutrient-poor waters use a photopigment called retinal to harvest energy from sunshine at levels at least equal to those stored by chlorophyll-based systems. Read more in the-scientist.com
Studies of marine microfossils, known as conodonts, have allowed a team of researchers from Australia and China to map extreme global warming which coincided with the most severe mass extinction on Earth approximately 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian period. Read more in m.phys.org
A company from Finland, Solar Foods, is planning to bring to market a new protein powder, Solein, made out of CO₂, water and electricity. Read more in weforum.org
An international team of researchers has created embryos containing both human and monkey cells, the Spanish newspaper El País reported July 31. Read more in the-scientist.com
The mutation introduced by Chinese scientist Jiankui He to the ‘CRISPR’ babies that sent shockwaves globally in 2018 has been associated with a 21% increase in mortality. Read more in biotechniques.com