Hektoen International

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Tag: Erin Duralde

  • One for science: nothing more, nothing less

    Erin Duralde Palo Alto, California, USA   On an ordinary day, just a routine checkup, Ruth’s left breast spoke up for the first time. Under the stiff press of the mammography machine, after 83 years of content silence, it cleared its throat and announced that today was the first day of its starring role in…