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  • Drugs with multiple targets show promise against myotonic dystrophy type 1

    Nov 9, 2015 11:30 am by Diana YatesResearch
    image of graduate students Long Luu and Lien Nguyen with U. of I. chemistry professor Steven Zimmerman

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    • image of graduate students Long Luu and Lien Nguyen with U. of I. chemistry professor Steven Zimmerman

    Researchers have added new capabilities to an experimental drug agent that previously defeated only one of DM1’s many modes of action. Their retooled compounds interrupt the disease’s pathology in three ways.