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To: allmendream
How about drugs that specifically target the genes of interest that the berries helped identify?

Do those drugs exist? If blackberries, or some extract, work as well as any prospective drugs then I'd go with the berries.

9 posted on 08/27/2008 9:07:27 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Not yet, but the berries have shown some likely targets for a drug to act specifically upon.

The berries are not very efficacious in stopping cancer, but the genes response they elicit shows us “targets of interest” that may well work wonders when specifically targeted rather than being part of a broad response pattern.

The berries only work (and not berry well) because of specific compounds within them hitting specific molecular targets.


18 posted on 08/27/2008 9:41:01 AM PDT by allmendream (If "the New Yorker" makes a joke, and liberals don't get it, is it still funny?)
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