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PNAS Science Sessions

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Jun 11, 2019 • 7min

Improving endoscopy for disease diagnosis

Pelham Keahey describes how differential structured illumination microendoscopy can improve cancer diagnosis.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 5min

Fungicides and honey bee health

Entomologist May Berenbaum discusses the effects of agricultural fungicides on honey bee health.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 6min

Vision and transition to land

Malcolm MacIver describes how our aquatic ancestors may have become interested in land.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 7min

Self-driving cars

Jeff Schneider explains how self-driving cars use machine learning to learn the rules of the road.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 7min

Science for the general public

Steven Weinberg describes his experiences writing about science for a general audience.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 7min

Interview with 2017 Breakthrough Prize winner Steve Elledge

Steve Elledge discusses how cells sense and respond to damage to their DNA.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 7min

DNA folding by loop extrusion

Erez Lieberman Aiden discusses a model of how DNA folds to fit inside a cell nucleus.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 5min

Maize domestication in Mexico

Researchers Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada and Miguel Vallebueno discuss 5,000-year-old partially domesticated maize.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 7min

Future of infectious disease research

Charles Rice and Robert Landford discuss the future of hepatitis C research without chimpanzees.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 7min

Honeybees and biofuel crops

Clint Otto discusses the impact of land-use changes on beekeepers in the Dakotas.

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