Paul Barrett, Charles Sanders and Yuanli Song, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (image)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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This is Charles Sanders, center, with colleagues Paul Barrett, left, and Yuanli Song. The Vanderbilt investigators determined the structure of a protein involved in Alzheimer's disease and made the surprising discovery that it binds cholesterol.

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John Russell/Vanderbilt University

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