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Friday, December 22, 2006

Could the ability to expel worms lead to a future asthma treatment?

I find following article interesting.

"New understanding of immune system creates unexpected links in medicine
Based on experiments with worms similar to those that infest millions of children in the tropics, researchers see potential for a new way to treat asthma. Parasitic infections and asthma may cause the human immune system to react in some of the same ways, and may one day be cured by manipulating some of the same proteins, according to research published today in the journal Science....."

Read the original article

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/biowissenschaften_chemie/bericht-76133.html

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