Reinventing drug discovery

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)

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/hu-rdd041613.php