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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Investigators Synthesize Vital Biological Molecule Erythropoietin for the First Time
By Julie Grisham, MS, Science Writer/Editor  |  Monday, October 8, 2012

Researchers have produced a fully synthetic, functional version of erythropoietin, the hormone that controls production of red blood cells.

Chemistry; Molecular Pharmacology; Research
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