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Old 04-22-2007, 03:47 PM
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Apparently this protein cure is much more general than this. It seems to target "nonsense mutations", which is when the creation of a specific protein is hampered by an inadvertant "stop message" that shouldn't be there. This therapy might apply to a very wide range of diseases.
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