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Since You'll Be Spending the Day on YouTube Anyway

Nov 22, 2007

FASEB has posted three videos to YouTube and no, it's not because they got a cool new Web camera and wanted to try it out. CNN will be deciding the questions for the next presidential debate here in the US, and FASEB is hoping that its videos -- each of which asks a single question about whether candidates support biological research -- will be viewed and commented on enough times to be included in that final question lineup. So if you feel like watching Sally Moody from the George Washington University Medical Center aim questions at would-be presidents, click here.

 

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