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From forged acceptance letters to fake DOIs, a publishing scam put Iraqi students and their degrees at risk. The fraudster? A university professor.

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Detecting Research Misconduct in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Detection or Deception: The Double-Edged Sword of AI in Research Misconduct

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Let's Keep Science Real

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A Science Sleuth Accuses a Harvard Medical School Neuroscientist of Research Misconduct

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Stanford President’s Past Research Under Investigation

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Opinion: Science Needs Better Fraud Detection—And More Whistleblowers

EPA Purges Trump Administration’s Science Advisors

The Public’s Trust in Scientists Rises, Pew Poll Shows

Seven More Retractions for Cancer Researcher

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What Happens When a Fly Lands on Your Food? 

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Record-Breaking DNA Sequencing Technology Could Transform Newborn Care

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Universe 25 Experiment

The World's Densest Bones

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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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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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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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Simplifying Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis with Blood Testing

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