Many persistent industrial chemicals accumulate in marine life and in our bodies. But we've had problems predicting which industrial chemicals will persist in the environment. Artist Perrin Ireland (working with PopTech friend Peter Durand's Alphachimp studio) collaborated with Amro Hamdoun (2010 Science Fellow) to explain how current research in cell biology might be used to to prevent this problem of accumulation from continuing to happen in the future.

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Name: Donald Kiernan

I love this — I wish all scientists communicated this way. How much did it cost to produce?

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