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SOMETIMES THE key to success lies in opening or closing the right doors. And that’s just what a research group at Dundalk IT hopes to do at a cellular level, in order to target diseases that to date have been poorly served by pharmaceutical drugs.

The smooth muscle research group is training their focus on ion channels, which are pores in the outer layer of cells that allow ions to enter and exit.