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Researchers follow a protein's travel inside cells to improve patient monitoring, develop drugs - VT News

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Virginia Tech chemical engineer Chang Lu, and his graduate student Zhenning Cao of Blacksburg, Va., developed a process that could lead to better drug development.

May 13, 2014    

In the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Chemical Science, Lu has announced that he and his coworkers have developed a novel technique that detects the subcellular location of a protein. The significance of this method is that the technique will allow the scientific and technological communities a simple and improved method for studying effectiveness of therapies for disease, including cancer.

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