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Nature 420, 39-40 (7 November 2002) | doi:10.1038/420039a
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Postdoctoral Research in Functional Genomics
- Harvard School of Public Health, computer science, biology, bioinformatics,
- Boston, MA
Postdoctoral Fellow - Computational Genomics - Team 78 – Ref: 80464
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1, UK
Medicine: Tackling multiple sclerosis
Hartmut Wekerle
Abstract
New work in mice finds that certain anti-cholesterol drugs can reduce symptoms of disease in brain autoimmune disorders that are akin to human multiple sclerosis. There are also hints as to how the drugs might work.
Multiple sclerosis owes its enormous socioeconomic importance to several factors. Worldwide, as many as one million people are affected by the disease.
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