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News: Building a Scientific Narrative (The Scientist) - Behind the headlines

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The Scientist April 15, 2024

Building a Scientific Narrative

A strong narrative is as integral a part of science writing as it is for any other form of communication.

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Integr Comp Biol DEC. 1, 2018

Narrative and "Anti-narrative" in Science: How Scientists Tell Stories, and Don't

K Padian

Narratives are common to all branches of science, not only to the humanities. Scientists tell stories about how the things we study work, develop, and evolve, and about h …

Sci Immunol APRIL 5, 2024

AS03 adjuvant enhances the magnitude, persistence, and clonal breadth of memory B cell responses to a plant-based COVID-19 vaccine in humans

L Grigoryan et al

Vaccine adjuvants increase the breadth of serum antibody responses, but whether this is due to the generation of antigen-specific B cell clones with distinct specificitie …

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