Tie, who has called herself Biotech Barbie, focuses her entrepreneurial ambitions on a controversial goal: altering the genome of human embryos to prevent genetic disorders go.nature.com/3JJBrY1

Australian government: "Suspected H5 bird flu in elephant seals at Australian sub-Antarctic Island". If this is correct, then highly pathogenic avian influenza will have invaded Oceania, the last continental region that was still free of the disease. www.agriculture.gov.au/about/news/s...

Nobel Prize 2025: Three scientists share Physiology or Medicine award; honored for discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking discoveries on peripheral…

Why yes.. someone has studied the defecation patterns of seabirds while in flight... www.cell.com/current-biol...

If the legislation passes, the Australian CDC will start as a standalone agency on 1 January 2026, building on the groundwork and achievements of the interim Australian CDC.

Talent recruitment programmes have enticed many researchers to return to China. But how successful have they been? I spoke with several researchers who have analysed these trends and assessed their impact on China's research ecosystem 🧪

My latest for Nature: AI model Aeneas predicts where ancient Latin texts come from, estimates how old they are and can restore missing parts. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Switching to anonymous applications gave postdocs more access to research facilities 🧪

A controversial paper claiming that an extraordinary microorganism can thrive on the toxic element arsenic has been retracted by the journal Science, nearly 15 years after its original publication -- but the paper's authors say the retraction is unwarranted. go.nature.com/44MQsQI

Gavi, the vaccine provider for the world’s poorest people, needs an extra US$3 billion to protect infants and other vulnerable groups. More donors must step up go.nature.com/4m0xFqG

In families with several children of the same sex, the odds of having another baby of that sex are higher than of having one of the opposite sex go.nature.com/45caBj4

Two low-cost techniques to revive the hearts of people who wish to donate their organs after they die could increase the number of hearts available for organ donation, particularly for children.🧪

‘Landmark’ study: three-person IVF leads to eight healthy children: Long-awaited results suggest that mitochondrial donation can prevent babies from inheriting diseases caused by mutant mitochondria | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Researchers have mined a massive new protein database for age-related brain diseases and found some interesting things. Among them - people with a gene linked to Alzheimer's produce lots of inflammatory proteins, making them vulnerable to other brain diseases 🧪

Researchers are making ever more sophisticated mini organs in the lab — and now they can grow their own blood vessels go.nature.com/3IkDNf5

💬 As we unite at #IAS2025, let's commit to #PutPeopleFirst in our language! Choose your words with care: ✅ "People living with HIV" ❌ "Infected people" ✅ "HIV acquisition" ❌ "Infection" ✅ "Acquired HIV" ❌ "Caught HIV" 🌐 Learn more & join us: zurl.co/hHvo1

Viruses and bacteria jumping from animals to people became a real problem when humans started keeping livestock, according to a massive genomic analysis of ancient pathogens 🧪

Brain–computer interface systems similar to Neuralink’s implants are being trialled in China, giving people with paralysis the ability to play computer games, communicate in Mandarin and restore hand movement. “BCI research in China is developing very fast” says electrical engineer Zhengwu Liu. 🧪

Japan is the only country that legally requires married couples to share the same family name, creating problems for scientists, especially women. "For the sake of the next generation, I hope that a system of selective surnames will be enacted immediately,” says marine geophysicist Kyoko Okino.🧪

Around one in seven biomedical-research abstracts published last year was probably written with the help of AI, according to a massive analysis. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

11th case of H5N1 in Cambodia has now been reported. Known exposure to sick poultry. This is the 7th case in June, and the 4th in Siem Reap. Continued vigilance, active surveillance, and a strong One Health response remain critical. #BirdFlu 🦠🔬🧪🐓💉😷🥼

The decades-old limit on how long human embryos can be grown in culture is under debate https://go.nature.com/448yuYw

Cambodia has confirmed its 9th and 10th human cases of H5N1 bird flu this year. 6 of these cases occurred in June alone. Sadly, 6 people have died in 2025. 🧪🧬🦠🔬🥼😷🐓💉

Axolotls can rebuild limbs and parts of their brains, green lizards can regrow tails, and zebrafish can fix broken spinal cords - Researchers are trying to harness these regenerative powers for human health🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Researchers have grown pig embryos with beating human heart tissue for the first time 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Researchers have created mice with sprinklings of human cells in their intestines, brains and liver. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Critics fear that anti-vaccine leader’s picks for crucial committee will be a ‘disaster for public health’. So our news team asks: who is on RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel — and what will they do? 🧪 #MedSky @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A Japanese spacecraft has probably crashed on the Moon, the second failed landing attempt for Tokyo-based private firm ispace https://go.nature.com/4dQ31xx

Researcher Amita Gupta has spent more than a decade planning and running a $70-million trial to study a new tuberculosis drug, enrolling ~6,000 participants in 13 countries. It might all have been for nothing. That's because a new NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. 🧪

The Genetics–Gestation Divide: When genetics and gestation point to different people, who is the legal parent? - The Hastings Center for Bioethics www.thehastingscenter.org/whose-child-...

The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the disease was present in Argentina and Canada much earlier

And it's off! Tianwen-2 is on its way to catch some asteroid dust: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before making a final visit to a distant comet. https://go.nature.com/43JtQ1Q

Harvard students and postgraduates have a place in Hong Kong, say universities 🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01657-0

Rice plants inherit cold tolerance in just three generations - without changes to their DNA. This study challenges an interpretation of evolution that has been around for more than a hundred years 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sworn testimony of NIH officials and internal emails reveal just how much DOGE is calling the shots in killing peer-reviewed biomedical research grants. More bombshell reporting from @maxkozlov.bsky.social in @nature.com:

Pee and blood reveal how much ultra-processed food is in your diet 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🦇🧫 Bat organoids for virus research A new study created lab-grown organoids from 5 bat species and 4 organs. These offer a powerful way to study how zoonotic viruses behave – and help test treatments before outbreaks begin. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SciComm #Virology 🧪 🧬

At least 2,500 applications for research funding have been denied so far this year, more than double the previous two years https://go.nature.com/4dynTcw

The CRISPR family’s most versatile member has made its medical debut: a cutting-edge gene-editing technique known as prime editing has been used to treat a person for the first time https://go.nature.com/3YNta9V

A baby boy with a devastating genetic disease is thriving after becoming the first known person to receive a bespoke, CRISPR therapy-for-one, designed to correct his specific disease-causing mutation https://go.nature.com/45bprqu

Can NIH-funded research on racism and health survive Trump’s cuts? The US cut ‘DEI grants’ w/o clearly defining DEI. Result: basic health research, e.g. on kidney disease in people from minority ethnic groups, was also cut. @smritimallapaty.bsky.social | @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Look what happens when LLMs talk to each other. They form their own social norms 🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01500-6

Golf-ball sized amniotic sacs made from stem cells in the laboratory www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Congratulations to the winners of Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition. The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway. 🧵 #SciArt #Academicsky 🧪

All of US virology research is threatened by this executive order https://go.nature.com/4k0D3ZO

Here's our story on what Trump's gain-of-function order means, written by the talented @smritimallapaty.bsky.social “The lab-leak narrative is now the justification used to shut down infectious-disease research,” says @angierasmussen.bsky.social.

Two of the first Parkinson's trials injecting neurons derived from stem cells into the brain report results in Nature. The results justify larger trials, which are in the works. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Consciousness science is fascinating - and now researchers are starting to study its neural underpinnings deep in the brain 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning. This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.