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Article: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Reports on the Growing Role of Ion-Channel Studies in Global Biotech R&D.
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- June 4, 2008
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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Ion-channel research is drawing increasing attention from a wide variety of life science investigators all over the globe, reports Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News (GEN). Such interest is not surprising as ion channels play key roles in numerous biological processes such as neural signal transduction, cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscle contraction, and epithelial transport of nutrients and ions, among others, according to an article in the June 1 issue of GEN (http://www.genengnews.com/articles/chitem.aspx?aid=2484).
"Research on ion channels has opened up possibilities for new ways to treat a host of diseases, ...