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People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Synology to Mowing the Lawn

The scialidate is a protein. We have to chemically fuse the enzyme to some other molecule that will attach itself to the cancer cell. Antibodies are wonderful proteins that we know how to engineer them. There's lots of human medicines that are antibodies. So we had to figure out how to physically connect the antibody and the enzyme.

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