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Once a Sweatshop, Now a Lab for Life: Studying Inside the Triangle Shirtwaist Site

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory building from below. Looking up at boarded up windows.

Inside a building in Greenwich Village, NYU Ph.D. and postdoctoral students follow a familiar routine. They take the elevator to a laboratory on the top floor, where they sit for hours perched over glass slides and microscopes, observing fruit fly cells and ant brains. They’re studying aging and brain development in social insects to understand […]

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