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In 2012, Emily Leproust was trying to raise money to start Twist Bioscience, a company that aimed to synthesize DNA more quickly and more cheaply than existing...Nature From ACM Careers | November 4, 2015
With Google Scholar, PubMed, and other free academic databases at their fingertips, scientists may feel they have plenty of resources to trawl through the ever-growing...Nature From ACM News | November 2, 2015
When the digital currency Bitcoin came to life in January 2009, it was noticed by almost no one apart from the handful of programmers who followed cryptography...Nature From ACM News | October 5, 2015
As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients' tumours,...Nature From ACM News | September 24, 2015
In a basement room, deep in the bowels of a steel-clad building in Cambridge, a major insurgency is under way.Nature From ACM News | September 18, 2015
After dozens of unsuccessful treatments, Eric Dishman started to suspect that his illness was due to something other than the rare kidney cancer he was diagnosed...Nature From ACM News | September 2, 2015
A complete lack of formal scientific training has not kept Johan Sosa from dabbling with one of the most powerful molecular-biology tools to come along in decades...Nature From ACM News | August 26, 2015
"Crap!" That was the first word out of Kevin Esvelt’s mouth as he scanned a paper1 published inScience last March.Nature From ACM News | August 4, 2015
Six years might seem like a long time to spend piecing together the structure of a scrap of tissue vastly smaller than a bead of sweat.Nature From ACM News | July 31, 2015
By hijacking the cellular machinery that makes proteins, bioengineers have developed a tool that could allow them to better understand protein synthesis, explore...Nature From ACM News | July 30, 2015
In his 1942 short story 'Runaround', science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov introduced the Three Laws of Robotics—engineering safeguards and built-in ethical principles...Nature From ACM News | July 2, 2015
For a field whose raison d'être is to chronicle the deep past, palaeontology is remarkably forward-looking when it comes to organizing its data.Nature From ACM News | June 30, 2015
Over the past two years, breakthroughs in ancient genomics and archaeology have revolutionized the story of the first humans in Europe—who are thought to have appeared ...Nature From ACM News | June 23, 2015
The genome of a famous 8,500-year-old North American skeleton, known as Kennewick Man, shows that he is closely related to Native American tribes that have for...Nature From ACM News | June 19, 2015
The U.S. government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications...Nature From ACM Careers | June 17, 2015