Nature
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A researcher-exchange programme made me a better doctor at home and abroad
Caleb Skipper (right) answers questions about lumbar puncture with translation help from Alisat Sadiq (centre) at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala.Credit: Caleb Skipper Caleb Skipper had his first interaction with African science in 2009, when he visited Ethiopia as an undergraduate at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. He spent a year working on a project to…
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It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life
DNA sequencing has become routine, but the roles of individual genes can be hard to be pin.Credit: Peter Menzel/SPL How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball Pan Macmillan (2024) For too long, scientists have been content in espousing the lazy metaphor of living systems operating simply like machines, says science writer Philip Ball in How…
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Spreading paws-itivity
Nature, Published online: 29 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00243-0 Marguerite Nicodeme works with Snoopy the dog to bring moments of cheerful relief to people with cancer. Source link
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