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December 26, 2004
Making Headway
A very interesting and easy to read article on oligonucleotides and how they may be effective in treating Huntington's Disease. This article also references Tapestry Pharmaceuticals. An excerpt:
Parekh-Olmedo discovered that some of the oligonucleotides that Kmiec and his group synthesized seem to be able to break down the aggregate proteins that appear in Huntington's Disease, a degenerative neurological condition.This also may have implications for other neurological diseases, like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.
Although it's in the early stages, the therapy is promising enough for Kmiec to have begun to collaborate with a doctor at Harvard, who will help test it.
"It just happened," Kmiec said of his discoveries. "We didn't expect it. We followed the data."
Posted by Dave at December 26, 2004 07:43 AM
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