Dr John Lawson Staff Specialist, Department of Neurology ,Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick is conducting a clinical study of a new investigational treatment for individuals with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex related Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytomas (SEGAs). He is currently seeking referrals of appropriate participants for enrolment into this study.
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There is a project called Community TSC which nearly anyone with a PC can participate. The idle time on your computer will be used to attempt to fit (mathematical models of) drug molecules to (mathematical models of) TSC proteins. Only an occasional connection to the Internet is necessary.
You need not be a computer wizard to participate.
The client runs on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/XP, Solaris, Macintosh.
Two papers in the August 1 issue of Genes & Development explore the genetic interactions between two well-known tumor suppressor proteins, PTEN and TSC2. See http://www.news-medical.net/?id=11778 for full review.
