Professor David Huang

Head, Blood Cells and Blood Cancers division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research; Honorary, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

Health & Medicine

Stopping healthy cells from self-destructing

Australian scientists have developed a world-first compound that keeps cells alive and functioning when they otherwise would have died

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