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James J. Collins
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 700
Citations - 105255
James J. Collins is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Synthetic biology & Population. The author has an hindex of 151, co-authored 669 publications receiving 89476 citations. Previous affiliations of James J. Collins include Baylor College of Medicine & University at Albany, SUNY.
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Re: Mortality From Lymphohematopoietic Malignancies Among Workers in Formaldehyde Industries
Mercedes Casanova,Philip A. Cole,James J. Collins,Rory B. Conolly,Elizabeth Delzell,Henry d'A. Heck,Robin C. Leonard,Richard A. Lewis,Gary M. Marsh,M. Gerald Ott,Tom Sorahan,Charles W. Axten +11 more
TL;DR: The results strongly suggest that in-haled formaldehyde is rapidly metab-olized in the respiratory tract, does notreach the bone marrow, and is there-fore unlikely to induce distant-site tox-icity including leukemia, and a more complete understanding of the exposure metrics and classi-dence parameters used is needed.
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Editorial overview: Antimicrobials: grappling with the complexities of antibiotics and resistance.
Roy Kishony,James J. Collins +1 more
TL;DR: The case is made that the antibiotic arsenal can be significantly enhanced by better understanding the actions of existing antibiotics and exploiting the bacterial responses induced by antibiotics and other lethal stresses.
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Mortality among chemical workers at Texas City plant: 1940-2001.
TL;DR: Brain tumor mortality was either due to chance in the early years or the cause of the brain tumors has been eliminated and there was less than expected deaths due to all cause mortality and no increase in all cancer mortality.