Mahmoud Moradi and Emad Tajkhorshid, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Mahmoud Moradi and Emad Tajkhorshid, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Postdoctoral researcher Mahmoud Moradi (left) and biochemistry professor Emad Tajkhorshid discovered how a transporter protein changes its shape to shuttle other molecules across the cell membrane.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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