'Merlin' Is a Matchmaker, Not a Magician

Researchers have figured out the specific job of a protein long implicated in tumors of the nervous system. Their new study details what they call the "matchmaking" activities of a fruit fly protein called Merlin, whose human counterpart, NF2, is a tumor suppressor protein known to cause neurofibromatosis type II when mutated.

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