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Date: September 26, 2014 at 9:11 am
Originally published September 26, 2014By Nadia M. WhiteheadWhen someone becomes infected with But what if these deadly toxins could be rendered harmless? That's the goal of Jianjun Sun, Ph.D., a biologist at The University of Texas at El Paso who has received more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his research. In search of a way to disrupt the destructive process, he and his lab team analyze how the toxins infiltrate and kill healthy cells one by one.'If we c....
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