New edition of touchstone microbiology reference book now available
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...ncer Institute and Children's Hospital Boston have rewritten science's understanding of the process of skin tanning -- an insight that has enabled them to develop a promising way of protecting fair-skinned people from skin cancer caused by exposure to sunlight. The study, to be published by the journal Nature...Geneticists oppose singling out Jewish women in European breast cancer patent
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