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A research misconduct case at the University of Melbourne exposed unethical authorship, led to retractions, and cost a PhD student his scholarship and a job offer.

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AI Helps Flag Potentially Problematic Journals for the First Time

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Opinion: Science Needs Better Fraud Detection—And More Whistleblowers

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Agreement Reached on Research Assessment Reforms

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Elisabeth Bik Faces Legal Action After Criticizing Studies

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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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Frontiers Pulls Special COVID-19 Issue After Content Dispute

SEC Charges uBiome Founders with Defrauding Investors

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Researchers Develop Standards for Reporting Polygenic Risk Scores

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Universe 25 Experiment

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What Happens When a Fly Lands on Your Food? 

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Why Do Dogs Love Peanut Butter?

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How Does Stress Cause Gray Hair?

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Best Practices for Precise Pipetting

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Optimizing Cell Culture Workflows

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November 2025, Issue 1

Why Do We Feel Butterflies in the Stomach?

These fluttering sensations are the brain’s reaction to certain emotions, which can be amplified or soothed by the gut’s own “bugs".

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Best Practices for Precise Pipetting

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Olga Anczukow and Ryan Englander discuss how transcriptome splicing affects immune system function in lung cancer.

Long-Read RNA Sequencing Reveals a Regulatory Role for Splicing in Immunotherapy Responses

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Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

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Exploring the State of the Art in Gene Editing Techniques

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