Word: calcineurin
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...couple allegedly shipped more than 20 boxes of sensitive medical materials to Texas, where they were recovered in June, 2000. The stolen materials were crucial to research involving calcineurin, an enzyme that causes the immune system to reject transplanted organs. Immediately before leaving Harvard, Zhu and Kimbara had found genes that block calcineurin—a lucrative discovery for drug development...
...researchers screened cells that could block calcineurin, an enzyme that makes organ transplants difficult by causing the immune system to reject the new organs...
Using information and technology developed by McKeon, Kimbara discovered two genes which successfully block calcineurin...
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