by Michelle Taylor
Millions of people die every year from heart disease, cancers, respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes, while millions of others suffer long-term symptoms from these conditions. Unfortunately, traditional drug discovery has failed in identifying solutions to these diseases.
That’s why Fauna Bio is taking a comparative genomics approach to drug discovery by using data from “extreme mammals”—those capable of surviving conditions or physiological events that would be lethal to humans—in order to identify drug targets to treat human disease.
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