Nature

Nov 28, 2018

The researchers announced that they had edited human embryos to repair a damaged gene that can lead to heart failure, but critics raised their eyebrows. Now, new evidence confirms that the gene editing was successful, said by reproductive and developmental biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health & Science...

Jun 28, 2017

One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier, won a default legal judgment on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub, the Library of Gen...

Jun 21, 2017

The Chinese government is going on the offensive against scientists who dupe journals by creating fraudulent reviews of submitted papers. A coalition of agencies led by the science ministry announced on 14 June that the government would suspend the grants of researchers involved in such fraud, which surfaced earlier...