A new cohort of young scientists is pursuing high-risk, high-reward research across the life and physical sciences, engineering, and medicine. Their projects include studying dogs to identify brain biomarkers that can shed light on human health, probing wastewater to detect cancer risk across…
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Study suggests healing skin without scarring may be possible — Harvard Gazette
New findings by Harvard stem cell biologists suggest it may be possible in the future to regrow wounded skin without scarring.
The new study published March 20 in Cell reveals a way to fully regenerate skin by unblocking an embryonic healing mechanism that shuts off after birth. Demonstrated…
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The Protection of Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna under International Humanitarian Law – EJIL: Talk!
Viktoriia Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist whose reporting focused on crime, human rights and Russia’s actions in occupied Ukraine, died in Russian captivity. She was a freelance journalist, working for various independent news outlets such as Ukrainska Pravda, as well as the Ukrainian…
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Fyodor Lukyanov: Russia Gains from Iran War Short-Term, but Worried about Future Conflicts — Russia in Global Affairs
The Iran War Is Exposing This Major Shift of the 21st Century
Fyodor A. Lukyanov
The US-Israeli war against Iran is forcing a new look at the nature and limits of alliances in the 21st century. In the second…
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An Immune Reaction to EBV can Lead to MS-Related Brain Damage
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections are very common–the vast majority of adults are thought to have been infected at some point. But there has also been mounting evidence that EBV is connected to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic…
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Recognizing the Importance of the Thymus
It’s long been thought that an organ known as the thymus is crucial to development of the immune system. Early in life, it ensures diversity among immune cells called T cells that fight pathogens and cancers. But it’s been assumed that the thymus then…
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Russia, India, and China Forging a New Eurasian Energy Architecture — Russia in Global Affairs
The global energy system has entered a period of profound structural transformation. As the escalating war in the Middle East continues to disrupt traditional energy supply routes, and the global geoeconomic fragmentation is reshaping trade patterns, a new Eurasian…
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Amid vaccine policy whiplash, here’s how a pediatrician talks to families
Molly O’Shea has been practicing pediatrics for 33 years. “I’ve seen it all,” she says. Her career spans the introduction of numerous vaccines, a decline in infectious diseases — and a troubling rise in vaccine hesitancy.
When, in January, the Trump administration slashed…
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Central Bank Sanctions Return to the CJEU – EJIL: Talk!
A Primer on the Russian Central Bank’s Legal Challenge to the Permanent Freezing of its Assets
On March 3, 2026, the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) announced that it has recently filed an action for annulment under Article 263 TFEU challenging Council Regulation (EU) 2025/2600 before the General…
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The Iran War Is Exposing This Major Shift of the 21st Century — Russia in Global Affairs
The US-Israeli war against Iran is forcing a new look at the nature and limits of alliances in the 21st century.
In the second half of the 20th century, international politics rested on a relatively simple logic. The world was divided into blocs. Strong powers…
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