Silver is a much more difficult metal to stick in an economic model, according to Murenbeeld, emphasizing that DundeeWealth has in past years tried to develop a process similar to what they use for gold.

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"The role of our model is to try to work out how you would develop drugs or devices that would interact with that process and stop it, " said Professor Noble.

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