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The Biden-Harris Administration, in a White House statement entitled “Fact Sheet: President Biden Reignites Cancer Moonshot to End Cancer as We Know It” (February 2)

Susannah Hills, an assistant professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Columbia University, writing in The Hill about COVID-19–related challenges to a reignited effort to conquer cancer (February 22)

Chi-Ping Day et al., National Cancer Institute scientists, writing in a March 14 Cancer Cell commentary about recent findings indicating that the use of widely employed research tools, such as green fluorescent protein and Cas9, can interfere with various aspects of tumor biology

Tracy McGaha, a professor of immunology at the University of Toronto and coauthor of a study recently published in Immunity that suggests Lactobacillus bacteria, common members of the human gut microbiome, may interact with macrophages to spur tumor growth (Medical News Today, February 23)

—Juliet Daniel, a cancer researcher at McMaster University in ...

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