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If you’re starved for fame, you can make up for the lack of it with the personal sense of pride in helping your fellow humans get healthier. Your work may have contributed to the fight against STDs or breast cancer, or developing high-tech gene therapies to boost children’s immune systems. People will thank you – that is, if they find out what you really do at your 9-to-5 government job.

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