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.@WHO director-general @DrTedros attributes the failure to end the Ebola outbreak in the DRC to mistrust of and assaults against responders — problems that have worsened this year. “The number of cases increases with the frequency of attacks,” he says.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01735-0?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=briefingthread …

“I think it’s brilliant,” says medical researcher Frederick Sieber about a second paper that offered a different conclution to his own. “We’re all biased and this gives a second pair of eyes.”https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01751-0?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=briefingthread …

Winners of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences's prestigious Momentum grants — designed to encourage talented young scientists to remain in or return to Hungary — called the draft law “ill-considered” and “extraordinarily harmful in its present form”.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01756-9?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=briefingthread …

An international group of stem-cell researchers is urging China to cancel draft regulations that would permit some hospitals to sell therapies developed from patients’ own cells, without approval from the nation’s drug regulator.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01725-2?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=briefingthread …