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Treating addiction: Cryo-EM technology enables the ‘impossible’

April 24, 2019 by

Scientists used a compound found in a shrub native to Africa to reveal the three major shapes of the serotonin transporter, a protein in the brain linked to anxiety and depression. The discovery opens new avenues for developing medications to treat addiction.

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