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462<p style="font-size: 1.2rem;">The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) is a nonprofit professional society that builds and empowers a broad community of molecular life scientists to advance discovery.</p>
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464<p>ASBMB is a community of 11,000 members, including researchers and scientist educators spanning students to senior scientists. Through dissemination of emerging scientific research, education and training initiatives, and advocacy, ASBMB shapes and supports fundamental science that fuels future innovation. For more than 100 years, its community has pioneered new discoveries in the molecular life sciences that drive medical advances and therapies for many disorders and diseases, as well as many other applications ranging from environmental to agricultural.</p>
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