Aimless proteins crucial to disease, research suggests

Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Stanford University discovered that a supposedly inactive protein actually plays a crucial role in the ability of one the world's most prolific pathogens to cause disease, findings that suggest the possible role of similarly errant proteins in other diseases.

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