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Scientists have developed a gene drive with a built-in genetic barrier that is designed to keep the drive under control. The researchers engineered synthetic fly species that, upon release in sufficient numbers, act as gene drives that can spread locally and be reversed if desired.

Q & A: New Research Explores Evolutionary History of Central and South American Anoles Jonathan Huie, a CCAS doctoral student, recently published a paper that bucks long held assumptions about which environments are hotbeds for extreme morphologies. The mainland ground anole Anolis tandai from Brazil. (Photo: Ivan Prates) June 02, 2021 By Kristen Mitchell A George Washington University Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. student recently published a paper about the evo...

Eight Bargaining Sessions In, How Do Harvard Grad Students Union’s Proposals Stack Up to Other Unions’ Contracts? Less than a year ago, Harvard’s graduate student union ratified its first contract with the University, ending 19 months of negotiations. Now, the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers is back at the bargaining table negotiating for its second contract. By Less than a year ago, Harvard’s graduate student union ratified its first contract with...

Credits: Photo courtesy of MIT CSAIL. Previous image Next image With rapidly growing demands on health care systems, nurses typically spend 18 to 40 percent of their time performing direct patient care tasks, oftentimes for many patients and with little time to spare. Personal care robots that brush hair could provide substantial help and relief.  This may seem like a truly radical form of “self-care,” but crafty robots for things like shaving, hair-washi...

Share When Dr Christopher Cornwall began his biological research career, three unanswered questions bothered him about how climate change might affect marine organisms. The Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Rutherford Discovery Fellow has now won this year’s Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize for helping answer them. Dr Cornwall, in the School of Biological Sciences, becomes the third Te Herenga Waka researcher to win the $200,000 award. His success fol...

News No Comments In celebration of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, UA Little Rock has highlighted some of the women in science at UA Little Rock, their amazing research, and their journeys to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Dr. Beth McMillan, Chair of the Department of Earth Sciences I am a geologist who studies landscapes — their forms and the processes that shape them. I grew up in Neosho, MO, and attended Colorado College...