The “Bug Whisperer,” Aaron Rodriques, wants to make the world a better place by learning from its oldest residents -- insects. At Purdue University, where he’s a PhD student in entomology, he studies bugs’ chemical systems, particularly their resistance to radiation, in order to make chemotherapy treatments easier on human patients.
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