Sentinel of the Cell (IMAGE)

Harvard Medical School

Sentinel of the Cell

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Scientists have deciphered the structural and functional differences of a critical human protein that guards against cancer and bacterial and viral infections. The findings explain what sets the human form of the protein apart from this of other mammals.

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Wen Zhou, Harvard Medical School

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