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There's good, stem cell-related news for another organ this week -- the lung. Researchers say they have found lung stem cells, which may hold therapeutic value for repairing damaged respiratory tissue, according to a study published this week in the
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In a feat of computational biology, researchers design novel proteins capable of neutralizing a key influenza protein
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