Needle-in-a-haystack search identifies potential brain disease drug
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 03:31
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.