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Johns Hopkins investigators create open source database to more easily study cancer data

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A year after LA wildfires, early data reinforce anxieties over firefighters’ cancer risks
Respirators (restricted by federal regulation) may or may not be the answer

The call to Fire Captain Brian Buchanan and his crew came at midnight. Northern California firefighters were urgently needed to help fight the wildfires that were devouring big swaths of Los Angeles.

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Vol.52 No.07

By Sara Willa Ernst

Mass General Brigham receives $50M gift for gene and cell therapy research

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Break Through Cancer’s Tyler Jacks: “We’ve created a new operating model for collaborative cancer research.”

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A year after LA wildfires, early data reinforce anxieties over firefighters’ cancer risks
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