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...fact, in the recent study in mice, published in the current issue of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, they did not mutate at all. "If we use this approach judiciously, we should be able to keep this pocket conserved and not develop drug resistance to it," says Dr. Wayne Marasco of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, a co-author of the paper. "The exciting part is that this is really a therapy that can be used for prophylaxis and treatment...
...Marasco believes that if additional testing goes well, a version of the antibody therapy could be in trials as early as 2011. And with the cost of antibody therapies - currently used in cancer care and in many pharmaceutical products - going down, an actual flu treatment wouldn't be far behind. It can't come too soon...
...Marasco and Sui led a team including researchers from Dana-Farber, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Children’s Hospital Boston...
...Marasco said that SARS continues to be a threat to world health—though the major outbreak which generated headlines across the globe last spring ended in July, China reported several cases this winter...
...What is perhaps most concerning is that the four cases of SARS that have occurred in Guangdong province China this year have not involved animal contact,” Marasco said...