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Vanderbilt University: New Research Reveals Environmental Pollutant in Drinking Water is More Dangerous Than Previously Understood
May 27, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 27 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:

Vanderbilt researchers have discovered that perchlorate, an environmental pollutant found in many sources of drinking water in the U.S., inhibits the uptake of iodide, an essential component of thyroid hormones, in a more pronounced and fundamental way than commonly considered.

This discovery was published May 25 in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology just as the Environme . . .

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