Promoting Public Health Toward new medication for chronic brain diseases

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With current technology, it is now possible to rapidly screen hundreds of thousands of molecules in bioassays in a relatively short period: The American Chemical Society has used this approach to identify small moleculed that block cholesterol synthesis in the brain, which might be useful in a number of degenerative conditions (although cholesterol is essential for brain function).
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