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Protein Found in Insect Blood Helps Pests' Immune Responses

Marc Maligalig   |

Oct 15, 2014 03:18 PM EDT

Michael Kanost, a university distinguished professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, together with his colleagues from Kansas State University, found that protein molecules in the blood of insects function as their immune systems by binding to the surfaces of pathogens to identify infections in their body.