The choice of purification methods and the source of the drug will determine the nature and amount of contaminants in the final medicine. (Nothing is ever 100% pure.) Moreover, protein folding, various kinds of enzymatic modifications and impurities inevitably introduce variation, sometimes with unexpected results.
Abaxis has the potential to become a prodigious disruptive technology, changing the nature and delivery of diagnostic medicine.
"I've certainly been approached informally by venture capitalists, " says Judy Lieberman , an author of the Nature Medicine paper.
They say their findings, published in the journal Nature Medicine, will help develop ways of preventing asthma.
In a study conducted with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and published in Nature Medicine, found that more than half of patients with lung and colon cancer might benefit from the test.
While the new commission may end up helping the private sector by raising public confidence in its quality, Justin Keen, a health policy analyst at the King's Fund, worries that having separate quality controls for public and private medicine reinforces rather than reduces the two-tier nature of British health care.
Nature Medicine carried a report by Jean-Christophe Plantier of the University of Rouen and his colleagues of a new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) detected in a Cameroonian woman.
The researchers, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and Stanford University, published their results in the journal Nature Genetics.
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It published its results not in a major scientific journal such as Nature or Science, but in an obscure online journal called e-biomed: The Journal of Regenerative Medicine, which many leading medical scientists don't read.
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