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May 2015's selection of notable quotes


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—Harvard Medical School researcher Jerome Groopman, in a New Yorker article about the quest to find a cure for AIDS (December 22 & 29, 2014)

Robert Siliciano, Johns Hopkins University infectious disease researcher who studies HIV latency, on the website of the university’s Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences

—New York University bioethicist Arthur Caplan, in a Mayo Clinic Proceedings commentary about problems in science publishing (April 3)

Ellen Stofan, NASA chief scientist, speaking during a recent NASA panel discussion about the search for water in the universe (April 7)

—Prominent HIV researcher Jay Levy of the University of California, San Francisco, in a recently published opinion article about HIV research (Trends in Molecular Medicine, April 14)

—Margaret Boden, cognitive scientist at the University of Sussex, ...

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