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About 150 scientists assembled at Harvard on Tuesday for an off-the-record, no-media-allowed discussion of how to create, from scratch, an...
Over 130 scientists, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and government officials from five continents gathered at Harvard this week for an “exploratory” meeting...
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In science as in politics, most people agree that transparency is essential. Top journals now require authors to...
It has a license to one of the biggest scientific advances in history, and its rivals have made...