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Screening babies’ genomes could save lives. Here’s how it would work 0
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- August 19, 2026
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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Daily briefing: Narcolepsy drug could kick off an Ozempic-style moment for the brain 0
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- August 19, 2026
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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A revolutionary stem-cell therapy must proceed responsibly to achieve its full potential 0
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- August 19, 2026
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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How to get the most out of an informational interview 0
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- August 19, 2026
Informational interviews should provide a networking opportunity for both parties.Credit: SeventyFour/iStock via Getty Informational interviews are informal opportunities to share or seek information. These chats can cover all sorts of topics, from switching disciplines or moving countries to potential job openings and collaborations. Most importantly, they are the mechanism that makes networking — the building
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NIH proposes major revamp of how it scores research grant proposals 0
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- August 19, 2026
The US National Institutes of Health has put forward a plan to change how it ranks research proposals and decides which ones to fund.Credit: Timon Schneider/Alamy The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has proposed overhauling how it decides which research projects to fund, and how it reports the outcome of those deliberations. For the
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Mathematics holds the secret to ‘ladder-proof’ knitting 0
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Shimamoto, D. S., Shimamoto, K., Mahmoudi, S. & Poincloux, S. Phys. Rev. X 16, 031006 (2026). Article Google Scholar Singal, K. et al. Nature Commun. 15, 2622 (2024). Article PubMed Google Scholar Spencer, D. J. Knitting Technology: A Comprehensive Handbook and Practical Guide 3rd edn (CRC Press, 2001). Google Scholar Sanchez, V. et al. Adv.
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