Cristina Luiggi | Mar 1, 2011 | 3 min read
By Cristina Luiggi Resistant to Failure Vance Fowler’s postdoc Sun-Hee Ahn Duke University Medical Center In 2006 Duke University clinician Vance Fowler found the perfect animal model to investigate a question that had been bugging him ever since he started his residency at the university’s medical school in the mid-1990s: Why were some patients much better at fighting off bacterial infections than others?Scanning research on more than 20 differ