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Research summaries

I have been writing a variety of science briefs, research and workshop summaries, and other copy for the National Academies of Sciences and other clients. Some of these summaries include the following:

National Academies of Sciences

Frontiers in polar biology in a genomic era
Polar biological sciences stand poised on the threshold of a revolution, one involving the application of genomic sciences and other enabling technologies to address numerous issues, many of which were unrecognized as little as a decade ago. Whether studying the effects of global warming or systematically prospecting for gene products useful to human health, the era of genome-enabled biology allows us many opportunities to attain a level of understanding about fascinating biochemical processes never before possible.
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Promise and Challenges in Systems Microbiology
In 1674, in the Netherlands, Anton van Leeuwenhoek placed a drop of pond water under a glass that he had ground and saw a community of microorganisms never before seen by humans.
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