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DB Cooper Stories in Cancer

Last year the news was all abuzz with new evidence that was uncovered by amateur investigators looking into the most infamous hijacker in aviation history, a man known only as DB Cooper. The investigators found traces of material on his tie that was connected to Boeing’s SST development. But the story leaves more unanswered questions […]

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Pancreatic Cancer and the Microbiome

Beyond the genomic complexity of the disease, we’ve begun to examine the effect of the microbiome on pancreatic cancer. In a recent paper in Science, “Potential role of intratumor bacteria in mediating tumor resistance to the chemotherapeutic drug gemcitabine” [Geller et al] reported that 76% of pancreatic cancer patients in their study (n=113) had gammaproteobacteria in

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