A regional analysis brought together data on wild-animal consumption by more than 12,000 households, to investigate trends and drivers of wild-meat use across Central Africa. The study found that consumption has increased over the past two decades, and that the increase was driven by demand from growing towns and cities.

Red blood cells have been modified to form strong clots that halt any bleeding almost instantly and then promote tissue regeneration.

In fertilized egg cells, the maternal and paternal genomes are enclosed in separate compartments called pronuclei. Experiments in mice reveal that this spatial separation enables parental competition for cytoplasmic factors, which helps to prevent the dysregulation of chemical modifications to DNA-packing proteins and contributes to healthy embryonic development.

Two comprehensive data sets concerning students who graduated from 141 business schools over 29 years and 200 law schools over 21 years show that higher racial diversity is associated with higher median salary at graduation. Policies that promote racial diversity seem likely to enhance education and benefit society overall.