Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center researchers have identified a molecule that might have protective effects against neuronal damage caused…
Margarida Azevedo, MSc
Margarida graduated with a BS in Health Sciences from the University of Lisbon and a MSc in Biotechnology from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST-UL). She worked as a molecular biologist research associate at a Cambridge UK-based biotech company that discovers and develops therapeutic, fully human monoclonal antibodies.
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Articles by Margarida Azevedo, MSc
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry researchers have shown that the intracellular location of protein aggregates, long suspected to be involved in…
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