CHARCOAL 1 (IMAGE)

Rice University

CHARCOAL 1

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Artificial enzymes made of treated charcoal, seen in this atomic force microscope image, could have the power to curtail damaging levels of superoxides, toxic radical oxygen ions that appear at high concentrations after an injury.

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Tour Group/Rice University

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