Why determining what lags a huge gender paradox will not be...
Enlarge / Pink vs. blue—innocent gender self-expression or material wealth creating more entrenched gender stereotypes? In Sweden, girls are just as likely to go to school and university as boys are. Women make up a greater proportion of the country’s professional and technical workers than any other country in the world. And their representation in…
Treatments that trigger the body immune system to attack cancer make...
Enlarge / The two systems developed into therapies by today's Nobel winners. For both systems, the APC is an immune cell that presents proteins to the T cell so that it can determine if they're recognized. On the left, if CTLA-4 (yellow) is engaged on the T cell, it tones down the immune response. The…
Gene drive utilized to turn all female mosquitos sterilized
We've known for a long time that we can limit malaria infections by controlling the mosquitos that transmit them. But that knowledge hasn't translated into control efforts that have always been completely successful. Many of the approaches we've used to control mosquitos have caused environmental problems, and mosquito populations are large enough that they have…
