Schulten and Cryptochrome (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Schulten and Cryptochrome

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Physics professor Klaus Schulten and his colleague, Ilia Solov'yov (not pictured) propose that superoxide, a molecule known to contribute to disease and aging, is also essential to a bird's ability to "see" north and south.

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Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau

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