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David E. Fisher is professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

New insight into skin-tanning process suggests novel way of preventing skin cancer

Findings from a study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital Boston have rewritten science's understanding of the process of skin tanning - an insight that has enabled them to develop a promising way of protecting fair- skinned people from skin cancer caused by exposure to sunlight.

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