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Contributions in the free trial issue include: Jack Lucentini 'Is this Life?', Alison McCook 'The Banned Pesticide in Our Soil', Melissa Phillips on lab savings which add up to $29,000 this year, Stephen Little of DxS on BioBusiness, and Karen Hopkin profiles Inder Verma.