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Kills cancer cells in a petri dish

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Kills cancer cells in a petri dish

Thank-you, XKCD, for putting this favorite line of many newspapers (“Kills cancer cells in a petri dish”) in perspective. +Ben Goldacre would be proud, I hope… 🙂

http://xkcd.com/1217/

xkcd: Cells
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steve
I am a husband, son, and physicist. I am Research Group Manager in the Research Division at SNOLAB and a Professor of Physics at Queen's University. I like to do a little bit of everything: writing, running, biking, hiking, drumming, gardening, carpentry, computer programming, painting, drawing, eating and sleeping. I earned a Ph.D. in Physics in 2004 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I love to spend time with my family. All things written in here are my own, unless otherwise attributed.

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