Instead, the government of British Columbia widened the road between the sites.

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"Something like 2% of cancers down the road will come from CT scans now, " says Columbia University radiation biologist Eric Hall, who was not involved in the current study.

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Ian Lipkin, a Columbia researcher who was an author on the Science paper, says his bee work could provide "a road map for addressing outbreaks of infectious disease" like SARS. Metagenomics could also open a window on the invisible microbes, still undiscovered, that live in the earth, air and sea.

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