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Alessandra Eustáquio, University of California -- San Diego

Caption: Alessandra Eustáquio and her colleagues in Brad Moore's laboratory discoverd a new enzyme and biological pathway in Salinispora tropica, a promising marine organism that creates a natural product being tested to treat cancer.

Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego

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