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M olly Edwards loved plants throughout childhood, eventually going on to study their development and evolution in college and later graduate school. She also developed a passion for the arts, ...

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Marine biologist and conservationist David Shiffman was an early power user and evangelist for science engagement on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Over the years, he trained ...

J ohn Moult remembers the time he was floored by an algorithm. Moult, one of the organizers of the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competitions and a computational biologist ...