Scientists Predict New Uses For Existing Drugs From Their Side Effects

Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 16:21 in Psychology & Sociology

Researchers have discovered a new way to make use of drugs' unwanted side effects. They developed a computational method that compares how similar the side effects of different drugs are and predicts how likely the drugs act on the same target molecule. The study, published in Science, hints at new uses of marketed drugs.

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