An article published online in Science Daily last week reports that researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have found that natural compounds derived from a sea anemone extract and a shrub plant block the autoimmune disease response in type-1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. The study appears in the November Early Online Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Testing performed on both human subjects and rats found that modified compounds derived from...
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