No Reduction in COVID-19 Hospitalizations, Deaths with Ivermectin

By Catherine Offord

The ACTIV-6 trial reports that people who took the drug for three days may have spent slightly less time feeling unwell with SARS-CoV-2, but fails to find differences in disease progression between the treatment and placebo groups.

Different Forms of Autism Have Opposite Problems with Brain Precursor Cells

By Charles Choi

Compared with cells taken from non-autistic controls, neural precursors from autistic boys proliferated in atypical ways, a small study finds.

Ana Marija Jakšić: Shaping Fly Brains

By Chloe Tenn

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne evolutionary neurobiologist is using Drosophila to investigate how organisms adapt to novel environments.

Rat Sperm Generated from Stem Cells

Infographic: A New Look at Monogamy Across the Animal Kingdom

Monkeypox Likely Spread Undetected in US Before Recent Reports

Webinar: MULTI-seq: Single-Cell Genomic Sample Multiplexing Using Lipid-Tagged Indices

By MilliporeSigma

Chris McGinnis will describe the advantages and applications of MULTI-seq using lipid-modified oligonucleotides, while Jennifer Silverman will discuss using the MULTI-seq Lipid-Modified Oligos kit in single-cell analysis workflows.

Poster: The Mosaic Brain

By The Scientist Creative Services Team

How somatic mutations cause brain diseases

Introducing: Words for Nerds

Your new science word–guessing obsession awaits.

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