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New Medication Aims to Re-Myelinate the Optic Nerve after Optic Neuritis

ant-LINGO-1 phase II readout 8:58
There is never a shortage of hope in the pharmaceutical world, and the recent reports on anti-LINGO-1(Biogen Idec) are full of promise for patients that have suffered vision loss from optic neuritis events.  The drug targets the LINGO-1 protein that is found in the human central nervous system and is known to inhibit myelination of axons and regeneration of axons.  Myelin is the...