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  "textContent": "Megan Sweet slices tumors. A normal day in the lab finds the Virginia Tech graduate student with hands deep inside a refrigerated metal box, pulling a mounted mouse-grown tumor incrementally closer to a razor-sharp blade. \"It's all about fine tuning and making sure it's going to be an even slice,\" said Sweet, who studies biological sciences. Finally, the blade meets the pinkie nail-sized nub of tissue and slices through it with a rhythmic chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk. \"This is the hardest and most time-consuming part,\" Sweet said. \"But it's also kind of meditative.\"",
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