Misusing ecology: Study warns against comparing human migration to biological invasions
A new study published in Biological Reviews critically examines the parallels and key differences between human migration and biological invasions. Bringing together experts from both the natural and social sciences, the study explains why drawing such parallels is misleading and potentially harmful, particularly in today’s politically charged climate…
65 years ago, sit-ins were born. Has their time come again?
This Black History Month, our commentator interviews a civil rights leader about his past with the sit-in movement and what lessons can be learned for today…Impairment of DET1 causes neurological defects and lethality in mice and humans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 7, February 2025. SignificanceDET1, together with COP1, recruits specific transcription factors for polyubiquitination by the E3 ligase CRL4COP1/DET1. This polyubiquitination targets the transcription factors for proteasomal degradation and ensures they only accumulate to …
Tendency to target military may lead to anarchy: SC Justice Rizvi
• Rights of terror victims ‘largely overlooked’, Justice Afghan notes • Military courts working under parliamentary sanction, observes Justice Aminuddin • Country cannot have both normal and military courts trying civilians, Imran’s lawyer argues ISLAMABAD: Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, a member of the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Bench (CB…
Human respiratory airway progenitors derived from pluripotent cells generate alveolar epithelial cells and model pulmonary fibrosis
Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 24 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41587-025-02569-0Human pluripotent cells are differentiated into lung progenitors and alveolar type 1 cells…
Apotex licenses exclusive Canadian rights to Qutenza® from Grünenthal
Monday 24 February, 2025 Aachen, Germany & Toronto, Canada, 24 February 2025 – Grünenthal, a global leader in pain management and related diseases, and Apotex Inc. (“Apotex”), the largest Canadian-based pharmaceutical company, announced today that they have entered into a strategic licensing agreement whereby Apotex will have the exclusive Canadian rights to Qutenza®…
US agency firings signal more govt layoffs
The U.S. government’s human resources agency is rushing to shut down and drastically shrink entire departments in what sources familiar with the actions say will serve as a template for a second wave of mass layoffs in the federal bureaucracy. The Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the personal information of millions of past and…
Justice Thomas urges Supreme Court to reconsider free speech rules near abortion clinics
Justice Clarence Thomas issued a scathing dissent Monday after the Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging free speech rights around abortion clinics, suggesting he wants to revisit the matter after the court ended the federal constitutional right to abortion in 2022.The big picture: The high court’s move marked a loss for abortion opponents…
Poland Clone Robotics Make Liquid Muscled Synthetic Copy of the Human Body
Clone Robotics made the Protoclone which is a faceless, anatomically accurate, synthetic human with over 200 degrees of freedom, over 1,000 Myofibers, and over 200 sensors. This is pretty much like the synthetic androids in the movie Alien and other science fiction movies, anime and books…