Ever since the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk realized that GLP-1 drugs were useful for more than diabetes, doctors and researchers have struggled to answer…

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Matthew J. Memoli has had an exceptionally good year. At the beginning of January, Memoli was a relatively little-known flu researcher running a small…

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