Christina Woo working in her lab (IMAGE)

Harvard University

Christina Woo working in her lab

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Woo and her lab have designed a pencil/eraser pair to both write and erase an important sugar from proteins, a crucial step to understand how these sugars influence proteins and their connection to diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

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Kris Snibbe/Harvard University

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