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Experts are scrambling to understand clusters of the normally rare disease that have been reported in Europe and North America in the last month.

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890-Million-Year-Old Fossils Are Sponges, Oldest Animals: Study

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Canadian Official Reprimanded for Withholding Winnipeg Lab Info

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Farmed Atlantic Salmon Likely Passed Virus to Wild Pacific Salmon

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Opinion: Western Canada Must Stop Clearcutting Its “Mother” Trees

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Polar Bear Researcher Markus Dyck Dies in Helicopter Crash

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Robert Carroll, Who Studied Amphibian Evolution, Dies

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Virologists Escorted Out of Lab in Canada

US Government Shutdown’s Effects on Science Ripple Overseas

Big Pharma Picks up on Medical Marijuana

Canadian Government Ending Networks of Centres of Excellence Program

Save the Wolves, Control the Moose

Former Students Allege Mistreatment of Lab Animals at Calgary 

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Biomedical Informatician Atul Butte Dies at 55

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A Gut Pathogen’s Unexpected Weapon Against Amyloid Diseases

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Electronic Records in Cell Culture Management

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June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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