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Whatever happened to …?

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As the year draws to a close, Nature looks back on a selection of news stories to find out what happened next.

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  1. Quirin Schiermeier
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Schiermeier, Q., Mullard, A., Cyranoski, D. et al. Whatever happened to …?. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.1338

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