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New tool for Alzheimer’s research

Focus on Bioactive Natural Products: Verrucarin A, a structurally intriguing natural product produced by soil microbe Myrothecium spp. was shown by Kondo et al. to attenuate

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Mycotoxins and oxidative stress

Beauvericin, a mycotoxin produced by various Fusarium spp, is an important food and animal feed contaminant. Its diverse toxic activities coupled with its ability to cross

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Focus on mitochondria

An interesting review has just been published in the May 23 issue of Cell by A Suomalainen and J Nunnari entitled “Mitochondria at the Crossroads of

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HDAC inhibitor drugs approved

Last week the FDA approved Italfarmaco’s givinostat (ITF2357) for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Givinostat is a novel histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor and was approved for DMD patients

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