Human trials are still two years away, but already Strittmatter is getting e-mails every week from patients asking to join the trials now.

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In 1991, a team of Duke researchers headed by Dr. Roses and Warren Strittmatter plucked out a gene that they suspected was involved in late-onset Alzheimer's.

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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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