Houra Merrikh UW Medicine (IMAGE)

University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine

Houra Merrikh UW Medicine

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UW Medicine microbiologist Houra Merrikh in her Seattle lab, where her team studies how protein machine collisions disrupt DNA replication and boost the rate of gene mutations that help bacteria adapt to hostile environments, resist antibiotics and fend off immune attacks

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