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Seung Kim and Jeremy Heit
Seung Kim and Jeremy Heit have pinpointed a protein that appears to play a central role in insulin production.

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Scientists' discovery opens the door to developing new therapies for diabetes.

Discovery may lead to new class of diabetes drugs

Scientists have known for a while that inhibiting the protein calcineuron boosts the risk for diabetes, but they didn’t know why. Seung Kim’s latest paper in Nature solves that riddle and opens the door to developing new therapies for the disease. Moremore

 

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Gleevec may be effective therapy for rheumatoid arthritis

The potent cancer drug Gleevec, used to combat leukemia and some gastrointestinal cancers, may be useful in treating rheumatoid arthritis, according to Bill Robinson and other researchers at the School of Medicine. Moremore

 
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