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rewrite this title Environmental Factor – April 2020: Plants take up heavy metals, help reduce pollution

Summarize this content to 1000 words Julian Schroeder, Ph.D., visited NIEHS Feb. 24 to speak about his institute-funded research into how plants respond to environmental stress from toxic metals. The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) professor’s talk was part of the Keystone Science Lecture Seminar Series. “Plants like to take up these metals, […]

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rewrite this title Oprah Winfrey Says Kamala Harris ‘Had Been Hiding in Plain Sight’

Summarize this content to 100 words One week after backing Kamala Harris with an electrifying speech during the Democratic National Convention, Oprah Winfrey was in Venice on Thursday. Winfrey was there to present her friend fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg’s DVF Awards, which celebrate the work of extraordinary women. At the event, held on the sidelines […]

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rewrite this title Environmental Factor – April 2020: Bangladeshi officials learn how NIEHS research helps their country

Summarize this content to 1000 words Fifty officials from the Bangladesh Ministry of Public Administration visited NIEHS Mar. 5 to learn how the institute advances environmental health research in the United States and abroad — including in their home country. The afternoon visit was part of a two-week public policy course offered by the Duke […]