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Nora Chen, a rising third year student majoring in chemistry, performs research in an EXP lab on the Boston campus. Chen and her classmates are trying to determine the effects of toxins, Nitrofurazone, on the survival of e.coli with different knockout chains. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

Nora Chen, a rising third-year chemistry student, performs research in the EXP lab on the Boston campus. Chen and her classmates are trying to determine the effects of the toxin Nitrofurazone on the survival of E.coli with different knockout chains. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

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