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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Scripps Research Scientists Find Way to Block Stress-Related Cell Death

Scripps Research Scientists Find Way to Block Stress-Related Cell Death : "Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have uncovered a potentially important new therapeutic target that could prevent stress-related cell death, a characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, as well as heart attack and stroke.

In the study, published recently in the journal ACS Chemical Biology, the scientists showed they could disrupt a specific interaction of a critical enzyme that would prevent cell death without harming other important enzyme functions"

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