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How NASA’s Search for Aliens Helped Detect Breast Cancer
Space Hero
The agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory can find the tiniest microorganisms—something that turned out handy for breast-cancer researchers.
Rosalie Chan
Published
Dec. 8 2017
9:00AM EST
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