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HPH Weekly: Genomics has broad applications, and for now, broad limitations

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Jo Zhou
Published
July 11, 2024
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Genomics has broad applications, and for now, broad limitations

Graphic representation of the DNA sequence in bright blues, pinks and purples.

Catalina Lopez-Correa made a career out of genomics. Last year, she got a diagnosis that showed her the limitations of the technology. Yet she thinks there are many reasons to be optimistic about its long-term potential.

Seeing industrial pollution through a journalist’s lens

Smoke emissions from a steel plant in rural Pennsylvania. An old car is in the foreground, nearly out of frame.

How does a journalist capture the consequences of invisible pollutants? That’s exactly what photographer Quinn Glabicki does at PublicSourceFellow photographer Ben Brody neatly frames Glabicki’s methods for readers in a piece for The GroundTruth Project that shares a selection of Glabicki’s photographs.

Snapshot: Ozone as flu fighter

Ground-level ozone can cause serious health problems. Research has found that it may also make the flu less dangerous.

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