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Research Highlight
Work by David Christianson and his research group has recently been highlighted by Celia Henry Arnaud in Chemical & Engineering News.
The Christianson group has been working to solve the structures of the enzyme histone deacetylase 6 for their potential in cancer fighting treatments. They were able to successfully solve one set of crystal structures and the work was published in Nature Chemical Biology.
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