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West Virginia University

MeasuringCells

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Kevin Courtney, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine in the WVU School of Medicine, is leading an investigation into how glitches during cellular self-cleaning can cause diseases affecting the body’s metabolism, its nervous system or even its genetic code.

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