Ten or fifteen years from now you might be able to say you first heard it here. Antisense technology is the ultimate magic bullet.
Participation involves a two-hour interview and a blood sample.
This draws a round of hearty laughter from the audience. The venue is the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association Conference in Boston, and the speaker is Charles Nemeroff MD, PhD of Emory University. The liver, he goes on to say, has the same composition no matter which way you slice it, while the brain's various parts are as different from each other as the liver is from the kidneys. One can hear some oohs and ahs from the audience, as well as sense a collective feeling of recognition. Meanwhile, this new knowledge is on its way to finding new applications.