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Two scientists embarked on a new adventure to write and illustrate a book on nature’s molecular machines for general audiences.

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Opinion: The Promise and Plight of Open Data

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Can Plants See? In the Wake of a Controversial Study, the Answer’s Still Unclear

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Opinion: In Publishing, Don’t Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Good

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Opinion: Science Needs Better Fraud Detection—And More Whistleblowers

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Q&A: Why eLife Is Doing Away with Rejections

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How to Fix Science's Code Problem

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Munich Court Ruling Sides with Elsevier, ACS over ResearchGate

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Most Medical Papers Didn’t Disclose Industry Payments: Preprint

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Introducing TS Digest

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Opinion: The Problem with Preprints

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Revealing Peer Reviewer Identities Could Introduce Bias: Study

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A Surge in Pandemic Research Shines a Spotlight on Preprints

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When Researchers Sound the Alarm on Problematic Papers

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As Plan S Takes Effect, Some Anticipate Inequitable Outcomes

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Survey Finds Lack of Diversity Among Journal Editors

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Researcher Sanctioned by PNAS for Not Sharing Alga

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Howard Bauchner Leaves JAMA Following Podcast Fallout

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MDAR Framework Aims to Standardize Reporting in Life Sciences

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Incest Isn’t Taboo in Nature: Study

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Why Are Breast Cancers That Metastasize to the Brain Hard to Treat?

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Scientists Find Their Voices to Rally Support for Research

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Improving Cell Therapy Sterility Testing

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The Computer-Assisted Retrosynthesis Revolution

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Study Confirms Safety of Genetically Modified T Cells

A long-term study of nearly 800 patients demonstrated a strong safety profile for T cells engineered with viral vectors.

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Meet Aunty and Tackle Protein Stability Questions in Research and Development

Meet Aunty and Tackle Protein Stability Questions in Research and Development

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Detecting Residual Cell Line-Derived DNA with Droplet Digital PCR

Detecting Residual Cell Line-Derived DNA with Droplet Digital PCR

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