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Growing Nerve Cells


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Growing Nerve Cells

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As if winning $1.5 million wasn't enough, the winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry also get an enthusiastic "shout out" from us. As storytellers who rely on images or video to report on scientific discoveries , our jobs have been made a whole lot easier thanks to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien.

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