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A journey of a plant biologist: Back to the wild to solve current crises.

HumanNature

Traditional medicinal plants, present in wild, have therapeutic properties and are likely to provide new compounds against pathogens. This method has already been proved to be effective, as it has contributed production of more than one-third of all FDA-approved new molecular entities (Patridge et al., Jaiswal A.K., Mengiste T.D., and Hoagland L.A.

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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018). Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and He photographed flooding in the U.S.

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China’s Beijing Graphene Institute looks to accelerate the ‘graphene era’

Physics World

Initially, the overfocus was irrational and concerning, so in 2016 I decided to set up the BGI to bring graphene research on the right path and pave the way for further industrialization.

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Why is Beautiful California Losing Congressional Seats? Constrained Local Housing Supply Influences National Politics

Environmental and Urban Economics

I explored this theme in these two blog posts back in 2016. In those posts, I intentionally embrace a provocative position and argue that West Coast land use regulation greatly contributed to the election of Trump in 2016. In this sense, local housing supply determines national politics.

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