Needle-in-a-haystack search identifies potential brain disease drug
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 12:01
in Health & Medicine
Scientists who examined more than 10,000 chemical compounds during the last year in search of potential new drugs for a group of untreatable brain diseases, are reporting that one substance shows unusual promise. The early positive signs for so-called prion diseases come from research in laboratory mice and cell cultures, they say in a report in ACS' Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.