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40 Percent of Stroke Animal Studies May Have Problematic Images

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Impersonation Scandals Shake Academic Publishing

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AI Helps Flag Potentially Problematic Journals for the First Time

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Scientist Fired for Defrauding Scholars in Huge Publishing Scam

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‘Publish or Perish’ Selection Pressures Shape Science Publishing

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ChatGPT Fails to Flag Retracted and Problematic Articles

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Tin Man Syndrome Paper Retracted, Author Admits to Fake Report

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Mirror Microbes: Understanding the How and Why of Hypothetical Life

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Transparent Peer Review: A New Era for Scientific Publishing

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Retraction of Controversial Arsenic-Life Paper Stirs Debate Among Scientists

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Data Integrity in Scientific Research: Insights from Elisabeth Bik

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Dire Wolf De-Extinction Debate Divides Scientists

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Record-Breaking DNA Sequencing Technology Could Transform Newborn Care

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Universe 25 Experiment

The World's Densest Bones

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Why Do We Feel Butterflies in the Stomach?

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Olga Anczukow and Ryan Englander discuss how transcriptome splicing affects immune system function in lung cancer.

Long-Read RNA Sequencing Reveals a Regulatory Role for Splicing in Immunotherapy Responses

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Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

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November 2025, Issue 1

Why Do We Feel Butterflies in the Stomach?

These fluttering sensations are the brain’s reaction to certain emotions, which can be amplified or soothed by the gut’s own “bugs".

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Olga Anczukow and Ryan Englander discuss how transcriptome splicing affects immune system function in lung cancer.

Long-Read RNA Sequencing Reveals a Regulatory Role for Splicing in Immunotherapy Responses

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Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

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Exploring the State of the Art in Gene Editing Techniques

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Simplifying Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis with Blood Testing

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