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Posted by: Gerrit Salinas in Latest News on Feb 10, 2010
DEPI Staffing, a healthcare recruitment provider, seeks to deliver the top medical news each day. Today we discuss a new discovery by Johns Hopkins scientists. This discovery may have a major impact on how new medications are designed in the fight against diseases and cancer.
Using an elaborate sleuthing system they developed to probe how cells manage their own division, Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that common but hard-to-see sugar switches are partly in control. Because these previously unrecognized sugar switches are so abundant and potential targets of manipulation by drugs, the discovery of their role has implications for new treatments for a number of diseases, including cancer, the scientists say.