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Excerpts: "the molecule was licensed by Calico Labs, the Silicon Valley biotech established by the founders of Google to find drugs based on the biology of agin
by joak 5y ago
Excerpts: "the molecule was licensed by Calico Labs, the Silicon Valley biotech established by the founders of Google to find drugs based on the biology of aging"
" In February, Calico announced that human safety trials had begun on the first drug candidate for neurodegenerative diseases it had developed based on the molecule, and that a study in ALS patients was slated to begin later this year. Other possible drugs for Parkinson’s disease and traumatic brain injury are likely to follow."
- boppo1 5y agoDid the people dumping ice on their heads contribute in any material way?
- xibalba 5y agoI imagine some number of them endured brain damage as part of the increasingly acrobatic nature of that "challenge". So maybe they will be downstream beneficiaries to the extent this drug's development advances the field of neural regeneration.
- sp332 5y ago$220 million, which funded research that discovered a third gene usable as a target for new therapies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Bucket_Challenge#Impact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Bucket_Challenge#Impact