Reinventing Drug Discovery And A Promising Drug Target For ALS

Using a new stem-cell based drug screening technology with the potential to reinvent and greatly reduce the cost of the way new pharmaceuticals are developed, Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have found a compound more effective in protecting the neurons killed in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Lou Gehrig's disease - than two drugs that ... (more)

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