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Masking Up, 1619 to Present

Putting on a mask to protect oneself and others against disease is nothing new, nor is resistance to mask-wearing, but mask designs have changed considerably from their first iterations.

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Robert Malone Targets Physician Who Alerted Medical Board to Misinformation

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Biogen Defends Newly Approved Alzheimer’s Drug

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New Study Fuels Debate About Source of Birds’ Magnetic Sense

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What’s the Deal with Bacterial Nanotubes?

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Infographic: Sources of Variation in Bacterial Nanotube Studies

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Frontiers Removes Controversial Ivermectin Paper Pre-Publication

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Deep-Sea Jelly Reignites Debate on Remote Species Identification

Max Kozlov | | 4 min read

Questions Raised About Widely Used Blood-Brain Barrier Model

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Insects Might Be More Sensitive to Radiation than Thought

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The Surgisphere Scandal: What Went Wrong?

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Union Says National Lab in Canada Is a Toxic Workplace

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First Human–Monkey Chimeras Developed in China

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Brazil’s Researchers Criticize Budget Freeze

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Opinion: What You Believe about “Science Denial” May Be All Wrong

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Two Plant Biologists Penalized by CNRS in France

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Call to Stop Using the Term “Mesenchymal Stem Cell”

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Race Is Not a Genomic Phenomenon

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Worms’ Magnetic Sense Questioned

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