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Accelerating Discovery
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Accelerating Discovery

by Scott Spangler
September 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
292 pages
8h 43m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 14
Problem: Finding
New Treatments for
Orphan Diseases
from Existing Drugs
M
    that aects red blood cells and the liver, where
red blood cells are created. Malaria is a treatable disease, but over
time the malaria parasite mutates in such a way that the standard treatments
become less eective. New treatments are needed, but investment in malaria
research is limited because the disease is most prevalent in poorer countries
that cannot pay much for advanced drugs. is is why malaria is sometimes
referred to as an “orphan disease,” a term given to diseases that are not heav-
ily researched, though their eect on h
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ISBN: 9781482239140