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Sci will be at the Experimental Biology meeting this year in San Diego, blogging on behalf of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. And I'll be posting all the newest and most interesting science right here! So make sure to tune in and follow along on Twitter, as I meet yet another epic conference blogging episode head on!