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On a cold, misty February morning in 2013, three medical researchers got into a car in New Delhi to travel to a highly anticipated meeting. Gagandeep Kang, a microbiologist from Christian Medical College of Vellore, Maharaj Kishan Bhan, then secretary to the Department of Biotechnology, and Nita Bhandari, public-health researcher at Delhi’s Center for Health…

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Priyanka Pulla

Priyanka Pulla is a freelance journalist who writes on science and health. Her writing has been published in Science Magazine, Forbes India, The Wire and The British Medical Journal,among others.

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