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Promoting Public Health: Toward new medication for chronic brain diseases
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2011-07-11 09:00:04
Description: A needle-in-the-haystack search through nearly 390,000 chemical compounds has led scientists to a substance that can sneak through the protective barrier surrounding the brain with effects promising for new drugs for Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease. They report on the substance, which blocks formation of cholesterol in the brain, in the journal, ACS Chemical Biology.
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