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Every breath you take …

During the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working a second job of sorts. At night and weekends, I suck in the air of reconstruction—literally. Dust, paint, Swedish finish, dry wall particles, wood...

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The moral obligations of science

What do the efforts behind chemotherapy, moon missions, the polio vaccine and in vitro fertilization have in common? They’ve all been helped by a cell line known as HeLa. The cells were scraped in 1950...

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Is science leaving us behind?

By the time you read this post, I’ll be in a classroom with a cohort of new graduate students, scribbling notes in an as-yet unruffled notebook. It’s amazing to think that for more than half of my...

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Nobel Prizes remind us that science is a team effort

By Clay Holtzman, Hutchinson Center science writer This week, the world is recognizing six scientists who are this year’s recipients of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Physics and...

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