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Satish Nair and Vinayak Agarwal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Caption: University of Illinois biochemistry professor Satish Nair, right, graduate student Vinayak Agarwal and their colleagues discovered the mechanism by which some bacteria evade a potent antibiotic.

Credit: L. Brian Stauffer

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