Rita dos Santos Silva
I joined United Academics team in 2015, during my Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences, at the VU Amsterdam. By that time, I was starting to realize that, more than planning scientific experiments, I was interested in understanding how science evolved and where it is going. After joining United Academics, it became clearer that open access must be the path for science advancement. In 2016, I became United Academics's editor-in-chief.
Top News: Ban on Gene-Editing, Melting Arctic and Opportunity’s Last Photos
Scientists ask for a global ban on gene-editing for clinical uses, the UN reveals the dimension of the Arctic’s catastrophe and NASA shows the last photos taken by the Opportunity rover; these were our favourite stories from this week.
Free of HIV: UK Patient is the Second-Ever in Remission
A decade after the ‘Berlin patient’, a second person appears to be free of HIV. A male patient in the UK has been in...
From the Producers of Beer: Cannabinoids in the Lab
Researchers engineered S. cerevisiae, the yeast used for brewing beer, and synthesized the main cannabinoids -THC and CBD- of the plant Cannabis sativa.
Polar Vortex, Environmental Crimes and Deep Sleep
Hundreds dead and missing after dam collapses in Brazil, low-temperature records in Midwest U.S. and a whole new way of learning a language. Here’s our top stories of the week.
Polio Eradication: Almost There?
On October 24, the World Polio Day celebrates the birth of Jonas Salk. In 1952, a team led by Salk at the University of Pittsburgh developed the first effective vaccine against poliomyelitis.
Acute Flaccid Myelitis is Spreading in the US
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in the United States (US), issued a briefing about the increasing number of cases of Acute Flaccid...
Illegal Wildlife Trade: The Numbers in 2018
The Illegal Wildlife Crime Conference, hosted by the UK government, took place on 11 and 12 October 2018, in London. In a time when...
The Complete List: The Nobel Prize 2018 Laureates
See the full list of the Nobel Prize Laureates in 2018.
Physiology or Medicine
James P Allison
Tasuku Honjo
"for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of...
Cancer Immunotherapy Was the Spotlight of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine
James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo co-jointly received the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation."
Sir Atiyah Claims He Solved a 160-Year-Old Math Problem. Did He Really?
Bernhard Riemann formulated his hypothesis about prime numbers in 1859. 160 years later, mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah claims he solved the million-dollar-worth problem.