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  1. Sandeep Ravindran

    1. Sandeep Ravindran is a science writer based in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Ana María Cárdenas’s first promotion at the medical-technology firm Becton, Dickinson and Company in Sparks, Maryland, came in September 2021, two years after joining as a research and development (R&D) senior manager.

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Nature 621, 643-645 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02908-8

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  • Correction 26 September 2023: An earlier version of this story erroneously located Elenoe Crew Smith in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and William O’Gorman in San Francisco.

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