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How do you get teens to stop cellphone use while driving? Survey says, show them the money
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Liquid cell transmission electron microscopy makes a window into the nanoscale
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City College-bred fruit flies, parasites, in space odyssey
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Harvard’s Wyss Institute launches NuProbe to facilitate global precision medicine
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The role of ‘extra’ DNA in cancer evolution and therapy resistance
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Special series examines the use of pasteurized donor human milk for vulnerable infants
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Cigarillo packaging can influence product perception, study finds
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