16 months after a young girl died in a gene-editing trial, the study's entry in clinicaltrial. gov has finally been updated to acknowledge the death. The move comes after @science.org and @retractionwatch.com revealed the fatality 1/ science.org/content/arti...
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Nature is investigating concerns surrounding a paper at the heart of a news story we published with @science.org last week on the death of a 6-year-old girl following a gene therapy treatment in China.
Journal, university investigations launched into gene-editing death following Science-Retraction Watch reporting
Nature is investigating concerns surrounding a paper at the heart of a news story published last week on the death of a 6-year-old girl following a gene therapy treatment in China. The paper, publi…
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Chinese university launches probe into girl’s gene-editing death days after investigation by @retractionwatch.com and @science.org investigation revealed the fatality.
Chinese university launches probe into girl’s gene-editing death
More than a year after failed clinical trial, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine promises “serious action”
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A couple paid more than $800,000 for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died, and it wasn’t made public. An exclusive from us and @science.org.
Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
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Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up.
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Frank Swain@frank-swain.bsky.social · 6mo agoOutside Source on BBC World Service is a masterclass in how to cover vaccine hesitancy: featuring a healthcare expert, a woman living with long term effects of measles, a mother of an unvaccinated child that got sick, and vaccine skeptic who'd since changed her view. www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
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One of the world’s major megacities is about to completely run out of water. Why isn’t this a bigger news story?!
Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 8mo agoRecommended read: ABC news spoke to three Iranian women about the impacts of Tehran’s water crisis amid the “worst drought in 60 years”.
The BBC has so thoroughly culled its science team that the national broadcaster is now using journalists from other corporations as correspondents on its flagship Inside Science show, rather than the wealth of specialists I was able to draw from. What a sad loss
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Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
Roland Pease@peaseroland.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt's the end of the road for BBC Science in Action. But science itself is facing growing roadblocks. For this terminal edition of SinA I'm joined by @naomioreskes.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social & @angierasmussen.bsky.social for where now? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
For years Roland has worked tirelessly to inform BBC listeners about societally-relevant science. This is exactly the WRONG time, BBC, to be letting him go! 😠
Roland Pease@peaseroland.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt's the end of the road for BBC Science in Action. But science itself is facing growing roadblocks. For this terminal edition of SinA I'm joined by @naomioreskes.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social & @angierasmussen.bsky.social for where now? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
The headlines? 1) Variants on both copies of #RNU4-2 cause a recessive neurodevelopmental disorder with prominent speech delay 2) One of the hallmarks is distinct white matter changes on MRI 3) It is clinically and genetically distinct from #ReNU syndrome www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Biallelic variants in the non-coding RNA gene RNU4-2 cause a recessive neurodevelopmental syndrome with distinct white matter changes
Genetic variants in RNU4-2, which encodes U4, a key non-coding small nuclear RNA (snRNA) component of the major spliceosome, were recently shown to cause a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) ...
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