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Earlier this year, the Lacks estate settled a lawsuit regarding a company’s profiting off of HeLa cells. The case serves as a reminder of the importance of proper ethics in human research.

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Human Neural Organoid Research Needs Better Regulation

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How should we proceed with image-analyzing AI?

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Addressing the Problematic Past of Animal Behavior Research

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Remembering Those We Lost in 2022

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Q&A: Gathering Diverse Microbiome Samples

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What’s Next for Ancient DNA Studies After the Nobel?

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Birth of The Pill, 1956–1960

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Sticks and Bones, Circa 8000 BCE

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Opinion: Hold Animal Use Committees Accountable for Their Failures

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Prolonged GLP-1 Exposure Remodels Gene Expression in the Pancreas by Flipping a Molecular Switch

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Student Admits She Did Not Conduct Experiments in Now-Retracted Paper

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Cockroach Milk Proteins Churn Out an Ig Nobel Win

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

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Best Practices for qPCR Assay Design and Optimization

Best Practices for qPCR Assay Design and Optimization

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Multiplex Microscopy Becomes Easier with Encoded Antibodies

A new system that enables researchers to uniquely tag monoclonal antibodies for use in microscopy could help simplify complex imaging studies.

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Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

Rethinking ALS Biomarkers: From Discovery to Clinical Impact

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Best Practices for qPCR Assay Design and Optimization

Best Practices for qPCR Assay Design and Optimization

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Beyond the Basics: Strategies for Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis

Beyond the Basics: Strategies for Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis

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Building Translation-Ready Biomarkers with Connected Workflows

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