Two groups of scientists independently conducted studies published last year that involved genetically altering a strain of H5N1 influenza.

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The findings, published independently by two research teams using similar data, are in the medical journals Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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None were published in reputable peer-reviewed journals and when independently assessed, they were invariably exposed as being misleading and inaccurate.

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