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University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences

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As marine mammals evolved to make water their primary habitat, they lost the ability to make a protein that defends humans and other land-dwelling mammals from the neurotoxic effects of a popular man-made pesticide, according to new research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

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R. Bonde, US Geological Survey

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