A cleaning drone was hovering outside the office window when I sat down, its soft bristles tracing the glass in patient rows. I leaned sideways to see past it and pulled up the morning docket. The court order was unambiguous: freeze all fiat assets tied to Yanxi Logistics Technology. It was a routine debt recovery:
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Laboratory meetings are part and parcel of the research experience. Regularly meeting with your colleagues can foster collaborations, build a sense of community and help with problem-solving. Every group does things in its own way, but meetings usually involve presentations from one or more team members, discussions of relevant papers and updates from the institution.
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The South African parliament has yet to debate the proposed natural-sciences bill. Credit: Franz Aberham/Getty Natural scientists in South Africa could be imprisoned for up to a year for failing to register with a government-backed regulatory body, according to proposed legislation that is to go before South Africa’s parliament. Under the terms of the proposed
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Two-year-old Giselle Ghattas is fearless, funny and affectionate, according to her parents. She loves diving headfirst down playground slides and climbing onto anything she can reach. Giselle seems like any other lively toddler, despite having a rare genetic disorder that threatens to rev her immune system at full throttle. The controversial embryo tests that promise
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Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Physicians test narcolepsy treatments by checking whether the drugs help people to fall asleep and stay asleep throughout the night.Credit: Lucia Graphus/Alamy The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-its-kind drug to treat the
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Shinya Yamanaka in 2012, the year he won a share of a Nobel prize.Credit: Aflo/Shutterstock Shinya Yamanaka doesn’t see himself as a celebrity. But people do recognize the stem-cell researcher when he’s out for a run, often while training for a marathon, on the streets of Kyoto, Japan. Many of them call out words of
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