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… Alexia Akbay, Joseph Clingerman (all from Yale School of Public Health) Q – How did you come up with this idea? Tell us more While we all come from different academic and research backgrounds, we are all interested in finding ways to mitigate the role food systems have as a driver of climate change. After coming across research linking a specific macroalgae, Asparagopsis taxiformis, to decreased …
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