A Vision for the Next Decade of Human Genomics Research
An article in Nature lays out 10 bold predictions for a field whose extraordinary achievements are just the beginning of what could be possible
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Election 2020: The Stakes for Science
Scientific American’s editor in chief sets up this week’s series of podcasts about how this election could affect science, technology and medicine.
