Dr. Fusheng Tang, a cell biologist at UALR, has received a two-year grant from the American Heart Association to study how cells get rid of damaged materials by the organelle lysome through the process of autophagy, or self-eating.
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Arkansas – home of thousands of backyard gardens, farmer’s markets, and a summer festival that pays annual homage to the tomato – also is home to a team of scientists based at UALR that is developing a tomato plant hearty enough to grow in space and surviving down-to-earth droughts and disease.
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