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To: Biomaven who wrote (3687)5/6/2001 11:44:46 AM
From: keokalani'nui  Respond to of 52153
 
Doubletwist article on a couple Bay area private efforts at drug transport. Worth a look.

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Getting Drugs Into Some Tight Spots
By Joe Alper

To help get drugs into places they don't normally go, scientists are turning to the very mechanisms that cells have evolved to get nutrients and other needed molecules past their largely impermeable cell membranes while keeping unwanted molecules out. Conversely, interfering with normal cellular uptake mechanisms offers a new approach to starving pathogens and other unwanted cells.

doubletwist.com