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  • Although as early as 1979 researchers had discovered that taxol killed cancer in a unique way, imprisoning malignant cells in a cage of scaffoldlike rods called microtubules, lab tests on animals were inconclusive.

    Is A Tree Worth A Life? 2008

  • Occupying much of the upstairs gallery are four scaffoldlike sculptures titled

    artforum.com 2009

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