Word: developable
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...news on vitamin E has been more mixed. Healthy folks who take 400 IU daily (standard multivitamins usually contain 30 IU) for at least two years appear somewhat less likely to develop heart disease. But when doctors give vitamin E to patients who already have heart disease, the vitamin doesn't seem to help. It may turn out that vitamin E plays a role in prevention but cannot undo serious damage...
President Bush seemed to have divided the stem-cell issue neatly last August. Stem cells, extracted from early-stage embryos, can develop into any of the body's cells and show great promise against myriad diseases. But some think this research, which kills the embryos in the process, is immoral. Bush decided to allow federal money for research on the 64 lines of stem cells that had already been developed but cut off funding for any new lines...
...attack. On average, only 1 in 1,000 molecules that bind to a target makes its way to human trials. Of the survivors, just 1 in 5 reaches the market. If failures are taken into account, pharmaceutical companies on average spend $802 million--and 10 to 15 years--to develop each new drug, according to a report released on Nov. 30 by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development in Boston...
...learned at the seat of the inventor of this technology," boasts technology group leader Bruce Taillon, "and showed him what would happen when CuraGen was set loose on it." The company stunned the biotech world in January, when it announced a 15-year, $1.4 billion deal with Bayer to develop drugs against obesity and diabetes. "CuraGen has a mastery of the genome," says CEO Jonathan Rothberg. "We needed a large drug company like Bayer to help us turn that mastery into a product...
...government report last week revealed that Gulf War veterans are nearly twice as likely to develop Lou Gehrig's disease as other military personnel. The numbers are tiny--only 40 to 80 Gulf War veterans have the fatal disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS--but the preliminary study (released by Anthony Principi, the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs) has a much broader significance. It's the first federal study to suggest that Gulf War service is linked with brain disease. A researcher who saw vindication in the report is Texas epidemiologist Dr. Robert Haley; he has been...