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When Ardem Patapoutian left Lebanon to study in the U.S., he had no idea that research science could be a career.
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A Long Road to a Nobel Prize
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SwabSeq: Scalable, Sensitive and Fast COVID-19 Testing
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Staying Gold: Gold Shield, Alumnae of UCLA
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