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Influenza Vaccine: Expert Says So-Called Flu Shot Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be

In a new look at influenza vaccine studies, Dr. Doshi steps away from conventional wisdom and draws our attention to the details of flu shot studies – safe and effective? Not as much as we think.

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Reprogramming Human Skin Cells Into Embryonic Stem Cells

Scientific breakthrough: Science reprograms human skin cells to become stem cells equivalent to embryonic cell lines, but without the moral conflict.

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