Monday, September 17, 2007

SRI helps develop high-speed screening process

A North Carolina company, in collaboration with Birmingham's Southern Research Institute, has developed a high-speed screening process to identify new compounds for treating the virus that causes AIDS.

Trana Discovery, based in Cary, N.C., said its new process will allow pharmaceutical companies to screen "vast libraries of compounds" to identify those that interrupt the lifecycle of HIV. Trana said the technology has the potential to discover new classes of medicines for the treatment of HIV that may overcome resistance mechanisms associated with current therapies.
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