Nov 1, 2010

Best. Protein. Name. EVAR.

It's the protein responsible for punching through the walls of infected and cancerous cells and injecting them with destructive enzymes: perforin, "our body’s weapon of cleansing and death,” said project leader Professor James Whisstock from Monash University. And thanks to x-ray crystallography, we have a picture of what it might look like at the molecular level, too.

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