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A new research has developed specific, potent drugs against Chagas disease and sleeping sickness. These diseases , caused by Trypanosoma protists,...

Nov 30, 2016

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Why school biology textbooks need to redraw the plant and animal cell

Does anyone remember what a catalase is? It’s one of the most popular antioxidant enzymes there is. I still remember doing...

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Silent killers: Zellweger syndrome and related diseases, a group of rare genetic disorders

Abraham Lincoln and King George III are just two of many people who achieved great things despite living with genetic disorders . Fortunately for...

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