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Life Science
Chris Martine is a professor of botany at Bucknell University. By day, his research focuses on wild eggplant relatives native to Australia. By night, he's busy networking with other botanists, rallying a community of scientists whose work is becoming increasingly appreciated by the everyday world. Plants, often overlooked as living creatures on this planet, have some surprising health benefits for people. And many of those benefits begin at the very core of our bodies.