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The first time Nick Mulcahy covered a scientific meeting, in 1998, he felt like a tiny boat bobbing in rough seas, with no compass on board. It was a cancer meeting, and the session […]
By her senior year as a biology major at Williams College, Laurel Hamers had a revelation. She had been growing disillusioned with research in general, mostly because she didn’t like working with fruit flies—she was […]
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