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Inside Job

Carnivores eat their prey from the outside, author David Quammen writes in his 2012 book Spillover. Pathogens attack from within and are no less deadly. They enter our bodies unseen when we breathe, have sex, take a drink of water or just walk in the woods.

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Molecules for Healing

Custom-designed molecules for treating human disease are being manufactured in an unlikely place: the tiny, forest-products town of Philomath.