U.Va. Scientist Hot on the Trail of Dangerous Pathogens
Friday, May 23, 2008 - 04:14
in Biology & Nature
A scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia Health System has deciphered the metabolic properties of two dangerous pathogens, discovering how they thrive and which genes, when knocked out, cause them to weaken.
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