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A teenager's innovative paper sensor for early pancreatic cancer detection, based on the protein mesothelin, captured global attention. While the concept addressed a critical medical need for ...

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After the second world war, many of Japan’s smartest scientists found jobs in North American laboratories. Syukuro (Suki) Manabe, a 27-year-old physicist, was part of this brain drain. He was working ...