Tapping UCSF invention, Roche and Versant dive into myelin..

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Tapping UCSF invention, Roche and Versant dive into myelin..

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Tapping UCSF invention, Roche and Versant dive into myelin repair

When mice chew through the insulation that protects a house’s wires, an electrician can repair the wires. People with multiple sclerosis, whose immune systems malfunction and attack the insulation of their own neural wires, don’t have that option. Helping them could be a very big deal in MS care.

Swiss drug giant Roche, tapping into an unorthodox business model created by a San Francisco venture group, wants to find treatments to help. Roche and Versant Ventures have created the oddly named Inception 5—we’ll explain the name later—to house a promising new way to look for multiple sclerosis drugs, a high-throughput screen developed at the University of California, San Francisco...... Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/myelin
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