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Culturing, a term for growing microorganisms in the laboratory, is a basic yet indispensable method in microbiology research.

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In asking such questions, Sedivy works alongside well-known writers — Virginia Woolf (on craft), Hannah Arendt (on time), Walter Ong (on speech) — to discover the method of making meaning.

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Victor Ambros receives funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The Conversation Weekly podcast caught up with Victor Ambros from his lab at the UMass Chan Medical School to learn more ...

Scientific American talked to Fedorenko about ... One is basically a very old method that scientists have been using for centuries: looking at deficits in different abilities—for instance ...

David Baker receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Fulbright, FNR Luxembourg, and the Qatar Nation Research Fund. Justin J.W. Powell has ...

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