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...because the more optimistic candidate nearly always wins, and most recently, it worked for George W. Bush. In the 2000 campaign, pollsters found that even voters who didn't like his tax plan or his inexperience did like him, saw him as a regular guy. Phoniness is a political toxin and charisma, a vaccine, and Edwards claims to have the cure...
...drug we envision could inhibit the toxin even after the toxin is released into the cell,” Cantley said. “It could be administered successfully in what you might call the late stages of lethality...
Once those tests prove successful, the private sector will become involved in creating a drug, and Cantley’s research partners at Fort Dietrich military research base in Maryland will take over testing on primates. A drug to combat anthrax toxin cannot be tested on humans because of the ethical and legal dilemmas of exposing humans to a potentially deadly disease...
Pharmaceutical companies would not ordinarily be interested in pursuing a drug to combat anthrax toxin because of the low likelihood that an average person would be exposed to anthrax, Cantley said. But because of the prospect of obtaining lucrative government contracts, private companies have already expressed interest in creating such a drug, he added...
...study also yields hope because the potential protease inhibitors identified have a high degree of what Cantley called “bioavailability,” or effectiveness in reaching target sites. The molecules that stopped the spread of anthrax toxin in the clinical study are between 0.5 and 5 micrometers in size—small enough to be able to permeate a human cell membrane...