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What Causes Cancer? Maud Slye Thought She Had the answer and a Way to Stop It


After studying mice in the 1910s, Maude Slye concluded that vulnerability to cancer was hereditary. She thought she had a solution to eliminate it, but she made some crucial mistakes

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