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A professional detour veered Ludovic Desvignes into a high-maintenance career—director of a high-containment facility.

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CDC Shuts Down Army Lab’s Disease Research

The Strange and Stranger Case of Wyndham Lathem

CDC Reassigns Lab Regulation Chief

Toward Eliminating Poliovirus—In the Lab

DoD Under Investigation for Pathogen-Handling Mistakes

Mistaken Anthrax Shipments

CDC Scores Poorly on Biosafety

Risky Research Halted at Tulane

CDC Seeks Safety Chief

CDC Tech Exposed to Ebola?

Top Science Scandals of 2014

Haste Caused CDC Bird Flu Contamination?

CDC Lab Resumes After Safety Lapses

Week in Review: July 14–18

Government Cracks Down on Biosecurity

CDC Halts Hazardous Biomaterial Transfers

Safe Flu Research Strategy

Regulating Dangerous Research

Dude, Where’s My SARS?

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Defense Facility Still Too Risky

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Moss Medicines: The Next Revolution in Biotech?

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New Neurons Continue to Form in Adult Human Brains

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Why Can’t We Tickle Ourselves?

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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The Holy Grail Hunt in De Novo Antibody Design

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July Digest 2025
July 2025, Issue 1

What Causes an Earworm?

Memory-enhancing neural networks may also drive involuntary musical loops in the brain.

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Explore synthetic DNA’s many applications in cancer research

Weaving the Fabric of Cancer Research with Synthetic DNA

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Enhancing Elution of Plasmid DNA

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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