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Beth Cimini, leader of the Cimini Lab within the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, discusses her work at the intersection of microscopy, computational biology, open source software, and scientific community building. The Bioinformatics CRO is a fully distributed contract research company that serves the computational biology needs of academic researchers and biotechnology companies, with a focus on genomics. https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/
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The Bioinformatics CRO Podcast
The Bioinformatics CRO · Tech & Science · English
On The Bioinformatics CRO Podcast, we sit down with scientists to discuss interesting topics across biomedical research and to explore what made them who they are today.
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