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Adriana Hoffmann, Botanist and Environmentalist, Dies at Age 82

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Biden Orders More Research on Long COVID

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Mysterious Havana Syndrome Not a Foreign Attack: CIA

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Biden Picks Robert Califf to Head the FDA for a Second Time

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Scientists Face a Third Round of Charges by Mexican Government

UK Announces “High-Risk, High-Reward” Research Development Agency

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EPA Finalizes Much-Criticized “Transparency” Rule

Robert May, Theoretical Ecologist Who Advised UK Gov’t, Dies

BARDA Director Departs Post Overseeing COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts

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How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia

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Postdoc Portrait: Rohita Roy

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From Data to Discovery: Omics in Therapeutic Innovation

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Exploring Organoids for Disease Modeling Research

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A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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