Future Medicine From Squid

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페이스북 트위터 카카오톡 네이버밴드 링크복사

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공학 >자연과학ㆍ공학
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2008.09.12

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This news article reports an exciting discovery about a toxic molecule found in both humans and in the Hawaiian bobtail squid that may hold the medical key for critical organ development and the immune system. Margaret McFall-Ngai, funded by the National Institute of Health, is studying the toxic molecule that causes tissue damage in human diseases such as whooping cough and gonorrhea and, is found to generate the light-producing organ in the Hawaiian bobtail squid.