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Biomolecules are medicine’s jacks-of-all-trades: They are suitable for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer diseases; they are used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis and asthma; they help stimulate the build-up of the body’s own immune defenses with flu and polio inoculations…

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