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Welcome to the science podcast for March 27, 2020.

I'm Megan Cantwell.

On this week's show, producer Joel Goldberg gets an update on the coronavirus from John Cohen,

as well as a rundown on his recent feature about the link between diseases and seasons.

And in an interview from AAAS annual meeting, I speak with Alex Motins about green toxicology,

the movement which seeks to harness non-animal testing methods to manufacture safer, more sustainable chemicals.

I'll now speak with John Cohen, a staff writer at Science. We'll be discussing his feature

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