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<Title>Burgeoning Bioinformatics</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><span>July 15, 2014</span><div><span>There are no test tubes, petri dishes or microscopes in </span><span>Ivan Erill’s</span><span> research lab. No chemical cabinets or safety goggles. Indeed, the room in the Biological Sciences Building where the assistant professor of biological sciences works is what scientists call a “dry lab” – a bunch of desks, computers and swivel chairs. </span><span>Erill is a computational biologist. He describes the field as “a hybrid between computer science and biology.”</span></div></div>
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<Summary>July 15, 2014 There are no test tubes, petri dishes or microscopes in Ivan Erill’s research lab. No chemical cabinets or safety goggles. Indeed, the room in the Biological Sciences Building where...</Summary>
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<Title>Farming The Bluefin Tuna</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div><p>In a windowless laboratory in downtown Baltimore, some tiny, translucent fish larvae are swimming about in glass-walled tanks.</p><p>They are infant bluefin tuna. Scientists in this laboratory are trying to grasp what they call the holy grail of aquaculture: raising this powerful fish, so prized by sushi lovers, entirely in captivity. But the effort is fraught with challenges.</p></div></div>
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