More refined AI models, advancements in human gene editing and the continuing impact of the Trump Team on science — we run ...

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AI technologies need to be safe and transparent. There are few, if any, benefits from being outside efforts to achieve this.

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The team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months.

In September 2015, representatives of 193 nations met in New York City to tackle the globe’s biggest problems. They broke these down into 169 targets under 17 broad goals, such as ending hunger and ...

Erratum Published: 12 February 2014 Erratum: Commensal microbe-derived butyrate induces the differentiation of colonic regulatory T cells Yukihiro Furusawa, Yuuki Obata, Shinji Fukuda, Takaho A. Endo, ...

The cover captures a hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus) in South Africa. Although maintaining biodiversity is core to sustainable development, policymakers frequently lack context-specific information ...

Wittman, H. G., Symp. 1, Fifth Intern. Cong. Biochem., 1961, for refs. (in the press).

Gene regulation refers to the mechanisms that act to induce or repress the expression of a gene. These include structural and chemical changes to the genetic material, binding of proteins to specific ...