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This week’s quote comes from Claude Lévi-Strauss.
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.”...

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This week’s quote comes from Lewis Thomas.
“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.”...

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This week’s quote comes from Aldous Huxley.
“Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.”...

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This week’s quote comes from Henri Poincaré.
“If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.”...

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Our featured scientist this month is Professor Dana L. Miller. Dana’s Lab is located in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The lab works on understanding how cells and organisms maintain homeostasis and survive when environmental conditions change. The main research focus in Dana’s lab is investigating responses to decreased oxygen, or hypoxia, and how they are integrated with adaptation to hydrogen sulfide.
Our interview below delves into Dana’s research, her clever advice to researchers, and the advantages of worms as a model system....

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This week’s quote comes from Albert Einstein.
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”...

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This week’s quote comes from Edward Teller.
“A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.”...

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