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Advancing Clinical Research Through Effective Data Delivery

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Introducing GMP-Grade Recombinant Cytokines for Stem Cell Research

A Patient-First Approach to Clinical Trial Enrollment

A Patient-First Approach to Clinical Trial Enrollment

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Real World Data: Opening New Avenues for Health Research

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Ethanol-Making Microbe Tied to Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

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Pharmacologist and Olympian David Bailey Dies at 77

Learn About the Tools and Principles for Liquid Handling Compliance

Streamlining Pharma Quality Control Workflows with Best Practices

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Independent FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Approving ALS Drug

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NIH Fails to Enforce Rules for Reporting Clinical Trial Results

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Opinion: Many Clinical Trials Fail to Navigate the Literature

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No Reduction in COVID-19 Hospitalizations, Deaths with Ivermectin

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Infographic: Inducing Active Immunity Against Opioid Overdose

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Opioid Vaccines as a Tool to Stem Overdose Deaths

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Nasal Vaccines Are Commercially High Risk, Perhaps High Reward

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What’s the Evidence for Fluvoxamine in COVID-19? 

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How Do Storage Conditions Alter Single Cell Gene Expression Data Quality?

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Biotech Tries Manipulating the Skin Microbiome

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Why Autism Therapies Have an Evidence Problem

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Anne Beaumanoir, Activist and Clinical Neurologist, Dies at 98

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Amid the Terror of War, Efforts to Keep Science Alive in Ukraine

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Penguins Are Among the World’s Slowest-Evolving Birds: Study

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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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An AI-Powered Scientist Proposes a Treatment for Blindness

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Rare Disease Research Gets a Boost from Automated NGS Solutions

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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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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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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Streamlining Microbial Quality Control Testing

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Agilent Unveils the Next Generation in LC-Mass Detection: The InfinityLab Pro iQ Series

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Pioneering Cancer Plasticity Atlas will help Predict Response to Cancer Therapies

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How Alderley Analytical are Delivering eXtreme Robustness in Bioanalysis