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Elizabeth Iorns, CEO and cofounder of Science Exchange is doing original research into preventing breast cancer. In her words:
Most research focuses on how to treat cancer once it has developed in BRCA carriers. This approach aims to provide a non-invasive way to prevent transmission of the BRCA mutation to offspring, removing the high cancer development risk.
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The total cost for this experiment is $15,000. The animal experiments will be conducted by Dale Cowley, Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina Animal Models Core via Science Exchange.