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IMAGE: Jamie Cooper is an associate professor in the University of Georgia department of foods and nutrition. Credit: Cal Powell/University...
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Elsevier Announces the Launch of Otolaryngology Case Reports
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World’s first super-microsurgery operation with ‘robot hands’
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2017 Julius Friedenwald Medal presented to Penn Medicine…
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New book, ‘The Postgenomic Condition,’ assesses progress since 2000
Credit: Melissa De Witte The sequencing of the human genome in 2000 was heralded as a turning point for humanity–a...
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Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy announces 2 new cancer grant…
Credit: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Throughout the past 15 years, Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT), the nation's...
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