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This week’s featured graphic maps Southeast Asia in the area of tension. For more on China-US rivalry in Southeast Asia, read Linda Maduz and Simon Stocker’s CSS Analyses in Security Policy here.

Under US President Joe Biden America continues to threaten the rules-based world economic order and is pushing the trend towards de-globalization. Although the new Biden administration rhetorically seeks more „values“ and the „community of democracies,“ the United States is still at its core seeking to protect its national interests with …

I got some great entries for our The Niche stem cell picture contest. While I expected many bright colorful images, every year some of the pictures surprise me in certain ways. There was another surprise in that two entrants in the contest, both Assistant Professors, are sisters. A talented family! …

If you were born before 1985, you might remember going to the store and buying CDs when you wanted to hear a piece of music. It was tough to share or remix the songs, the CDs could get scratched over time, and it was difficult to keep track of growing …

Many bacteria are extremely helpful to us. They digest our food, they keep us healthy or they help us in industrial processes. By now, we learned to use bacteria and their superpowers in many different applications. And surely, our bodies would not be the same without our bacterial friends. Unfortunately, …

Stem cell clinic firm US Stem Cell has just had a major paper retracted. Two of the notable authors on that paper are US Stem Cell leader Kristin Comella and stem cell researcher Thomas Ichim, who was senior author. It’s not clear to me if Comella currently has a role …

One of the biggest reasons for our climate change dilemma is the burning of non-renewable fossil fuels. So, to decrease greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we need to switch to green biofuels as energy sources. One sustainable alternative to petroleum fuel is bioethanol, which is also a lot healthier for …

I wrote earlier this week about Medeus clinic in Ukraine seemingly trying to recruit genetics researchers to CRISPR people for trait enhancement. Aiming for CRISPR people with trait enhancement? In the recruitment emails they sent out it seemed fairly clear that they were planning to do CRISPR on people somehow …

This week’s featured graphic shows the distribution of ceasefires and follow-up arrangements across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East between 1989 and 2018. For more on the role of ceasefires in intra-state peace processes, read Govinda Clayton, Simon J. A. Mason, Valerie Sticher and Claudia Wiehler’s CSS …

You’ve done the research, analyzed your data, and made your tables and figures. Now it’s time to write. Sometimes, it’s hard to get those words out and onto the screen and transform your work into a paper or a grant. Here’s a list of tools and resources that might help …