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October 14, 2008

A recent study combined math and medicine with a mathematically derived, optimally timed vaccine.

Computers are common in hospitals, but can math cure cancer? In a recent study, researchers combined math and medicine to show that patients may be cured of leukemia with an optimally timed (mathematically derived) cancer vaccine.

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