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Originally Posted by Ronhutton
We occasionally come across a promising candidate. Do we pounce on it and push for further work. No, we let it run for a while then bury it in concrete.
So why are we not hares instead of slow white rabbits!!
Ron
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Holy cow! I did not know this: just Googled now that you mention it:
Research opens up possibility of therapies to restore blood-brain barrier
Wednesday 2 January 2013
Research led by Queen Mary, University of London, has opened up the possibility that drug therapies may one day be able to restore the integrity of the blood-brain barrier, potentially slowing or even reversing the progression of diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS). The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....
Ron, your impatience is exactly true. I don't know what we can do about it, but for sure it is time to get impatient. There are at least a thousand studies on PD published every year, and most do not focus on a clear and present opportunity. If London had solved the BBB problem, we are off to the races. How can we put on pressure to have less research into our compulsive sex lives, and more into just having our lives at all? How can we get that BBB research made into a priority?