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Ways to boot out bias

Nature, February 27, 2019

Last year, six female scientists discussed in Nature how they dealt with gender bias in the workplace. Several readers asked what men were doing to help. Here, six male researchers describe their efforts to support their female colleagues. Some were uncomfortable getting credit for work that they feel everyone should be doing, with one rejecting credit completely by requesting anonymity.

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How advocacy gives back

Nature, November 20, 2018

Graduate students should get involved in advocacy. Becoming a leader in a field you are passionate about can teach you crucial management skills and offer a support network outside of the lab.

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Biology from scratch

Nature, November 7, 2018

Biologists are creating life-like cells from scratch. Built from the bottom up, synthetic cells and other creations are starting to come together and could soon test the boundaries of life.

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Replacing the replacements: Animal model alternatives

Science, October 12, 2018

When it comes to mimicking human disease or predicting the human body’s response to candidate drugs, traditional laboratory animal models are woefully inadequate. New technologies—3D cell culturing, human induced pluripotent stem cells, and gene editing—are leading to new solutions for replacing, refining, and reducing animal models.