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Human Microbiome
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Neuroscience
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Neuroscience
Rogulja D, Young MW. Control of sleep by cyclin A and its regulator. Science. 2012 Mar 30;335(6076):1617-21. PubMed PMID: 22461610.
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Behaviour
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Philosophy of Science
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Ethics, Social and Legel Issues
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Systems Biology
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Eye disease
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Medicine
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Stem cells
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Career
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This is not a new idea, but look at this funny experiment done at Harvard. I just can’t stop wondering how much we are missing when we are staring at our experiments with our own preconception…