Yeast Has Potential For Selecting Lou Gehrig's Disease Drugs, St...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Mon, 04/21/2008 - 19:00

Researchers are developing a novel approach to screen for drugs to combat neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease -- using yeast cells.

The clumping process of proteins takes decades in humans but the researchers could model the process within a matter of hours in yeast cells.

This now allows for rapid genetic screening to identify proteins that can reverse the harmful effects of the disease protein; visualizing the clumping; and testing molecules that could eliminate...

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