Re: promising Alzheimer news -- take 2

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Sep 13 2003 - 03:31:05 MDT

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    On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 06:36:02PM +1000, Brett Paatsch wrote:
    >
    > Damien Broderick writes:
    >
    > > >Medical conference in Oz suggests some rapid movement
    > > > imminent due to advanced technology
    > >
    > > Here's the url:
    > >
    > > http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2003/09/10/1062902114811.htm
    >
    > They don't talk much about mechanisms etc in the article but it *sounds*
    > like a bit of a breakthrough.

    However, to inject a note of caution, so far few drugs have actually
    resulted from the high throughput screening systems. There have been
    some reviews in Nature Pharmacology lamenting that despite great strides
    in the basic science and methods, the drug pipelines still run rather
    empty. 

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