Dr. Abigail Cline, Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University (IMAGE)
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The same enzyme that enables us to walk in the sun without shedding our skin can also enable non-melanoma skin cancer to survive and grow, researchers say.
Dr. Abigail Cline (pictured foreground), a student at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, is spending the summer between her freshman and sophomore years learning more about the role of this enzyme, protein kinase D, or PKD1, in skin cell damage and death.
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Phil Jones, Georgia Regents University
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