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Killing cancer by unleashing the body’s own immune system

Amara Mason

Mason earns ePoster Award at National Conference

David Schulz examines neurons under a microscope David Schulz, a professor of biological sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science, and a team of scientists at the University of Missouri have discovered that a neuron’s own electrical signal, or voltage, can indicate whether the neuron is functioning normally. If that voltage is absent, scientists say everything is “out of whack.”

Fooling nerve cells into acting normal

Drawing of the lamprey, Petromyzon marinus (Courtesy of FishBase.)

MU neurobiologists annotate critical neuronal proteins in lamprey genome