The US has seized 17 website domains used by North Korean IT workers in a scheme targeting US and foreign businesses, aiming to fund the government’s weapons program. According to the US Justice Department, North Korea dispatched these workers, largely to China and Russia, with the aim of deceiving businesses into hiring them as freelancers. The fraudulent workers made millions through this scheme for North Korea. These particular IT workers had been sanctioned by the Department of the Treasury in 2018.

Neurons Generated from Skin Cells Without Stem Cell Step in Mice
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a method to convert skin cells directly into neurons, bypassing the induced pluripotent stem cell