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Richard Houlston works at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, UK, where he searches for genes that confer susceptibility to disease.

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Laura Spinney is a journalist and novelist based in France. She is the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (2017) and Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global ...

Laura Spinney is an author and science journalist. She has published two novels in English, The Doctor (Methuen, 2001) and The Quick (Fourth Estate, 2007). Her third book of non-fiction, Rue Centrale, ...

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