Novartis hooked up with Schwab and has crafted monoclonal antibodies to Nogo.

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In 2000 Schwab's lab and other scientists at Yale University and in England silenced the skeptics, finally cloning the gene for a protein they dubbed Nogo.

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Working with Yale University neurologist Stephen Strittmatter, who cloned the Nogo gene, Biogen Idec has created a counterinsurgency protein that acts as a sponge to soak up copies of Nogo and other growth-blocking proteins in the spinal cord before they can bind to the receptor.

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