Stanford chemists craft molecular scalpels to clear unwanted proteins from cell surfaces – Mirage News

Stanford chemists have developed a new tool that shuttles unwanted cell surface proteins to their deaths.
By Rebecca McClellan
When scientists find a potentially dangerous protein on a cell, they might imagine shrinking themselves down to become tiny surgeons, cutting out just the problematic molecule and leaving the healthy parts of the cell intact. While deft hands and sharp instruments would never be able to excise a single protein from the surface of a cell, a new molecular tool could ma…

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