Nigeria has become a major hub for the illegal trade of vultures, conservationists say, partly because of its biodiversity and porous borders. “We are doing everything possible to make sure that the smuggling of items, including vultures, including donkeys, and other species outside the country is suppressed to the barest minimum,” insists Abdullahi Maiwada, a
The size of scientific research teams has steadily increased over time.Credit: two meows/Getty Few articles in history have had the disruptive impact of the 1953 article by James Watson and Francis Crick. Nature article proposing the double helix structure of DNA1. It is a classic of small team science; two authors who propose a paradigm-changing
In 1996, cryobiologist Gregory Fahy walked into his doctor’s office and got a monthly supply of growth hormone. Your hope, reinforced by a single study in rats1was that the injections would help him grow his thymus, a peculiar immune organ that atrophies and virtually disappears as people age. Regenerating it, Fahy thought, would help it
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