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Free of HIV: UK Patient is the Second-Ever in Remission 0
- Briefings, Health & Medicine
- March 6, 2019
A decade after the ‘Berlin patient’, a second person appears to be free of HIV. A male patient in the UK has been in remission for 18 months, after quitting the antiretroviral therapy. The case was reported on March 5 in the journal Nature, by a team of researchers from the University of Oxford and

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From the Producers of Beer: Cannabinoids in the Lab 0
- Briefings, Mind & Brain
- February 28, 2019
Researchers engineered S. cerevisiae, the yeast used for brewing beer, and synthesized the main cannabinoids -THC and CBD- of the plant Cannabis sativa.
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Polar Vortex, Environmental Crimes and Deep Sleep 0
- Briefings
- February 1, 2019
Hundreds dead and missing after dam collapses in Brazil, low-temperature records in Midwest U.S. and a whole new way of learning a language. Here’s our top stories of the week.
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CRISPR Babies, Inexistent Cardiac Stem Cells and deGrasse Tsyon’s Response. This week’s Top Stories 0
- Briefings
- December 10, 2018
We picked our three favourite stories from last week: why we need stricter regulation for gene-editing research, how deGrasse Tyson ignored the pain he inflicted and what is not inside our hearts.
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California’s Fires, Bolsonaro’s Threats and Kerogen. 3 Top Stories of This Week 0
- Briefings
- November 16, 2018
Numbers show climate change is driving a trend towards larger fires in California. Meanwhile, Brazil’s newly appointed foreign minister believes climate change is a Marxist plot. Here are the three favourite stories of this week.

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Our Brain’s Unique Cells, Legal Weed in Canada, and More. 5 Stories of the Week 0
- Briefings, Editorial Column
- October 19, 2018
We picked our five favourite science news and stories. Here is our week’s roundup.

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