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Talk about toxic

They arrive from other disciplines; they spread into distant fields. Toxicology is a voyage of discovery for scientists with diverse skills, including those of communication. Ricki Lewis gets them to open up about it.

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Lewis, R. Talk about toxic. Nature 441, 250–251 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7090-250a

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