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May 3, 2021 Anurag Agrawal, the James A. Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Maureen Hanson, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (CALS, Arts and Sciences), have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the academy announced April 26. The election of 120 members – 59 of whom are women, the most elected in a single year – brings the total number of active members to 2,461. ...

The Day Kosher Slaughter Was Saved An English rabbi, the Irish Senate, and the power of argument The recent ruling by the European Union Court of Justice allowing member countries to ban ritual slaughter of animals for kosher and halal meat is just one in a long line of such measures dating back at least as far as 1893, when Switzerland voted to outlaw the practice. That prohibition continues to be in effect, while the ban on kosher slaughter in Nazi Germany was rescinded after World War II. N...

The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson review – a science page-turner Designer babies and ethical quicksand ... The biographer of Steve Jobs tells the story of Jennifer Doudna and the development of gene-editing Jennifer Doudna with her Nobel gold medal, December 2020. Photograph: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press/EPA Jennifer Doudna with her Nobel gold medal, December 2020. Photograph: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press/EPA Thu 11 Mar 2021 02.30 EST One of the most striking passages in Walter Isaacsonâ€...