Word: proteins
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...screen of over 500,000 gene markers turned up five genes with strong associations with the onset of Alzheimer’s. Only one of those, the protein APOE, had been associated with the disease before...
...Several years later, Ridker and his colleagues at the Medical School and Brigham and Women’s have released the results of a study testing the effectiveness of the cholesterol-lowering drug rouvastatin in treating individuals with high levels of a reactive protein that is an indicator of heart disease...
...study, funded by Astra-Zeneca, the maker of rouvastatin, tested nearly 18,000 patients who had low levels of cholesterol but high levels of the reactive protein. According to Ridker, the reduction in heart disease risk was far greater than the researchers anticipated...
...While the non-generic statins can be expensive, testing for the reactive protein only costs about $18 and saves the cost of imaging tests for cholesterol—as well as surgical procedures such as angioplasties or bypass surgeries...
...early September, the first-year Harvard Medical School students in a biochemistry class expected to learn about protein degradation. Instead, they came out of lecture ready to push for more comprehensive conflict of interest policies...