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The German minister for science and education has been stripped of her PhD after she was found guilty of plagiarizing chunks of the dissertation she wrote in 1980.
One of the most advanced tuberculosis vaccines has failed to protect infants from getting the disease in a clinical trial, but it may be effective in adults.
With dogged persistence and an unwillingness to entertain defeat, Bruce Beutler discovered a receptor that powers the innate immune response to infections—and earned his share of a Nobel Prize.
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The authors of a review article on genome-wide association studies have retracted the paper due to “substantial textual overlap” with other sources.
Researchers and biotech companies are bringing a universal flu vaccine closer to reality.
Fat cells behave differently in obese individuals, causing inflammation and insulin resitance.
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