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Massive Ebola data site planned to combat outbreaks

An international partnership seeks African leadership to organize information about the disease.

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Removing statues of historical figures risks whitewashing history
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Volcanic views, stalking storks and the ephemeral eclipse
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The secret to Germany’s scientific excellence
With a national election this month, Germany proves that foresight and stability can power research.
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Budget battle looms for US science programmes
Competing spending priorities in the House of Representative and Senate could push funding negotiations into December.
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Trump finally nominates new leader for NASA
James Bridenstine, a member of Congress, has long pushed for the United States to return to the Moon.
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Brain researchers in uproar over NIH clinical-trials policy
An open letter to the US National Institutes of Health says that classifying human-behaviour studies as clinical trials creates unnecessary red tape.

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Supramolecular chemistry: Interlocked benzenes
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Stem cells: R-spondin 3 is a critical regulator of gastric antral stem cell homeostasis
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Urban self-sufficiency at risk
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Nuclear Envelope: Chromosomes: one BAF layer to bind them all
Barrier-to-autointegration factor (BAF) forms a layer on the surface of chromatin at late mitosis, guiding the reformation of a single nuclear envelope surrounding all chromosomes.
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