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Discovery of Aquaporins
The beginning of the biological interface
The understanding of how biological cells handle water and keep out sodium ions while being able to accept the larger potassium ions may be the beginning of the biotic interface.
One of the first applications in the field of disease control might be the ability to affect the way the malaria organism absorbs water.
On big thing is the way the scientists discovered Aquaporins and how they found out using the x-ray
crystallography techniques designed decades ago to study the genome is an example of the proper attitude necessary to venture into discovery: humility.
Copyright (c) 2005 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
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