However they fit into two major areas of therapeutic research explored with other strategies by many other academic and industrial players, the cell therapy and that of drug discovery. (istem.eu)
The work, inspired by an investigation into a genetic form of the condition, has the potential to affect therapeutic research for millions of people suffering from progressive kidney diseases. (sciencedaily.com)
The team, led by molecular biologist Brian Kennedy of the Merck Frosst Center for Therapeutic Research in Pointe Claire - Dorval, Quebec, and biochemist Michel Tremblay of McGill University in Montreal, created a line of mice lacking an enzyme called protein tyrosine phosphatase - 1B (PTP - 1B). (sciencemag.org)