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Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

Written byEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
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There is no gray literature now: Everything is a magnet for immediate attention and misunderstanding. An unbelievable, inaccurate study no longer has to linger in obscurity; it may bubble over into the public consciousness as soon as it appears online, and get passed around the internet like a lost kitten in a preschool.

1. ___ cell (think epidermis)
4. Sinewy-sounding molluscs
8. Moved through a membrane
9. Worry of stratospheric proportions?
10. Myrmecology focus
11. Tubes from pharynges
13. Agent that can carry DNA into a cell
14. Electromagnetism and gravity, for two
17. Scaly, as some epithelial cells
19. Diagnostic tool (hyph.)
22. Betelgeuse's constellation
23. Connected with an opening between vocal cords
24. Grow old; wither away
25. Botanical junctions

1. Anatomist Paul, eponym of a brain area2. Of the body; physical3. Zyzzyva's place on lists of beetles4. Bell-shaped form of cnidarian5. Arachnid with a stinging tail6. Virus named for a Congolese river7. Taxonomic level below genus12. Insulin, estrogen, et al.13. ...

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