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At Mark Peifer’s University of North Carolina lab, scientists study the elaborate machinery that cells use to communicate with one another, which often goes awry in colon cancer. Last week, the ...

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With all the politics trumping public health, I figured Delray Beach would just go with the flow. I was wrong.