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Kwok: Not Just for the Barbie

by Chris Tachibana | Aug 1, 2015

file0001055795738Roberta Kwok (@robertakwok) covers the latest science stories for Conservation This Week, including news from PNAS about disease-fighting West African prawns. A schistosomiasis outbreak after a dam was erected on the Senegal River led to experiments that discovered just how the the native crustaceans protect residents from parasites. Read more from Roberta at robertakwok.com.

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