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Intoxicating ideas for saving a billion lives

Indirect effects of global climate change threaten the health of hundreds of millions of people. The very uncertainty that shrouds this issue must serve as an organizing principle for adaptation to its ill effects.

Assistant professor of biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco. Age: 39

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Banding together to search for a plant hormone receptor

Another example of commensal microbes that affect host immunity may hold implications for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and other ailments

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An anonymous agitator upsets a German misconduct investigation

New research from the frontlines of the modENCODE Project reveals the most comprehensive genomic picture of the worm and the fruit fly

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Savanna and forest elephants in Africa are two distinct species, according to new genetic data, settling a long-standing controversy

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