A New Paper Finds H5N1 RNA in Bovine Semen the Same Week the Cattle-Sugar Mutation Lands
EID reported H5N1 RNA in bovine semen from California 2024 the same week a cattle-sugar mutation paper specified how mammary infection gets easier.
Kenji Nakamura
Bureau: Tokyo
The FDA Genome-Editing Guidance Enters Day Seven of Its Comment Window
Day seven of the FDA's draft guidance on next-generation-sequencing methods for genome-editing safety; comments close July 14, and the paper's Monday Day-One brief gets its first procedural marker.
Antarctica Has Eighteen Drainage Basins and Several May Already Be Past Their Thresholds
The Winkelmann paper mapped 18 Antarctic basins against individual thresholds, finding West Antarctic clusters at 1-2°C while the world sits at about 1.3°C.
Twenty-Three North Atlantic Right Whale Calves This Season Is Still Less Than Half the Recovery Math
The 2025-26 calving season closed at 23 calves — a 17-year high still under half the 50 per year the species needs to recover, with two juveniles lost.
SpaceX Launches Final GPS III Satellite for Space Force in Tuesday Predawn Flight
Falcon 9 booster B1095 flies its seventh mission before dawn Tuesday carrying the last of ten GPS III satellites to medium Earth orbit.