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Article: Boynton Beach teen employs earthworms in Alzheimer's research.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2007
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Byline: Rhonda J. Miller
Jun. 11--WORMS -- lots of worms -- are in Melanie Kabinoff's summer plans.
She will order 2,000 of them, half nearly microscopic, the other half yellow earthworms similar to what you'd find in the dirt or buy in a bait shop.
Kabinoff, 16, will squish the tiny round ones in a pneumatic press, spin them in a centrifuge and collect the liquid protein. Then she will infuse the liquid through the pores of the yellow earthworms in her experiments to find a way to prevent Alzheimer's.
"I worked with worms because they're multicellular, the most like humans," Melanie said.
The Park Vista High School student's ...
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