Increasingly, scientists believe that a protein called amyloid peptide is the culprit in Alzheimer's disease.
The drug is a protein that has been linked to promoting survival and growth of neurons.
The gene produces a protein that already has reversed diabetes in some lab animals.
Biologics like Amgen's Enbrel--a protein drug for immune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis--have become blockbusters.
Benlysta works by targeting a protein called BLISS that came out of HGS' gene databases.
Beta amyloid is a protein fragment that collects in clumps inside the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
The gene makes a protein that helps move water and salt into and out of cells.
Then, in 1983, it discovered a protein that eventually became Epogen, a treatment for anemia.
Instead, it licensed the rights to use a protein called erythropoietin from Thousand Oaks, Calif.
ETC-216 is a slightly different version of a protein in high-density lipoprotein, the so-called good cholesterol.
One vaccine, from GlaxoSmithKline, uses a protein called MAGE-A3 found on lung cancer cells.
In the fat-shedding livers, by contrast, she found high concentrations of a protein called fatty-acid-binding-protein 4.
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Herceptin targets a protein called HER2 found on tumors in about 20%-25% of breast-cancer patients.
They were looking for human myoglobin, a protein that is found in muscle tissue.
HER2 is a protein that is overproduced in about one-fourth of all breast cancers.
Collaboration with the University of Utah yields a protein HIV appears to need to copy itself.
In 91% of cases it matched a drug to a protein known to be its target.
And it allows Dr Schneider to pretend he is a protein looking for a binding site.
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An antibody is a protein that has been tailored to stick to just one sort of molecule.
Among other things, Serum is working on an improved version of erythropoietin, a protein to treat anemia.
Karst recommends Greek yogurt with berries, almond or hemp butter with an apple, or a protein shake.
She focused on a protein called 5-lipoxygenase, a key enzyme that spurs the body to produce leukotrienes.
Vitamin E in particular can help boost collagen, a protein that gives skin its structure, she says.
It works by neutralizing a protein produced by your immune system known as tumor necrosis factor (TNF).
Both rely on having a protein's amino-acid sequence in the bag, and both have strengths and weaknesses.
The fifth was in the polymerase 2, a protein that helps the virus replicate its genetic material.
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In its normal form, however, a protein is more than just a simple string of amino acids.
It has been known for a long time that mutations in a protein can encourage amyloid formation.
In its unfolded state, a protein's backbone is exposed from its normal hiding-place deep within the folds.
The alternative was to develop a protein-based drug, like Erbitux, but the drug would have to be injected.
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