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PNAS Science Sessions

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Jun 11, 2019 • 6min

Exploring tropical glaciers

Lonnie Thompson discusses clues to Earth's ancient climate history that are stored in tropical glacial ice.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 6min

Gatekeeping in scientific publishing

Kyle Siler discusses the role of editors as gatekeepers at scientific journals.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 6min

Designing theoretical molecules

Alán Aspuru-Guzik discusses how he uses supercomputing as a "molecular spaceship" to explore chemical space and discover potentially useful new molecules.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 6min

Genome editing

Keith Joung and Feng Zhang explain methods for editing sequences of DNA in living cells.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 5min

An overdependence on p-values

Veronica Vieland discusses a common disconnect between scientists and statisticians in evaluating scientific evidence.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 6min

Retina cell transplantation

Robin Ali describes efforts to transplant healthy rod and cone cells into afflicted retinas.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 5min

Heart regeneration

Hesham Sadek explains the regenerative capability of newborn mouse hearts.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 6min

Global collaboration against HIV

Ambassador Deborah Birx discusses international efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 6min

Molecular profiling of cancer

Elaine Mardis discusses how next generation sequencing technology is helping the Pan-Cancer Initiative gain a molecular understanding of cancer.
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Jun 10, 2019 • 6min

Growing stem cells in 3D

David Schaffer describes how to culture human stem cells in a fully-defined, scalable 3D medium.

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