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Cholesterol’s effects on cellular membranes
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Cholesterol’s effects on cellular membranes

by Andrew Tie,  Virginia Tech In this 2018 photo, Assistant Professor Rana Ashkar sits in her Roberson Hall office. Credit: Virginia Tech For more than a decade, scientists have accepted that cholesterol—a key component of cell membranes—did not uniformly affect membranes of different types. But a new study led by Assistant Professor Rana Ashkar of the...