Rare surgery performed to remove pancreas, prevent diabetes
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...nvironmental cues into signaling events, which are processed by the parasite. Another unusual feature of the genome is the presence of an unprecedented number of tRNA (transfer RNA) genes, which constitute nearly 10 percent of the sequence data collected for the project. These genes appear to be present withi...