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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Erik Nelson

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Erik Nelson and his colleagues found that a byproduct of cholesterol metabolism causes some immune cells to spew out cancer-promoting signals. Nelson is a professor of molecular and integrative physiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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