Susanne Moser is a former staff scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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In the work of NCBI Staff Scientist and genomics expert Martin Shumway, distilling these large volumes of raw sequencing data requires more sophisticated computing algorithms, intensive quality control and indexing for online searchability by the science community.

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"The studies are notable for that alone, " says John Paul SanGiovanni, a staff scientist with the National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who published 12 years of follow-up data on omega-3 fatty acids and AMD risk earlier this year with very similar results.

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No, a staff scientist replied.

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Gordon is also a scientist on staff at Boston Children's Hospital where the trial was conducted.

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When community groups send out appeals for help, convince local merchants to volunteer supplies and staff the tables providing coffee and donuts for the volunteers, we create the social capital which the political scientist Robert Putnam has identified as crucial to healthy societies. (His famous example was that of the choral societies of northern Italy).

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