In theory, disease could also spread if the animal microbes pass their drug-resistant genes to human bacterial strains.
In animal tests PolyMedix's drug PMX-30063 is at least as powerful as the gold standard hospital antibiotic vancomycin at killing key strains.
The sponsors contend that Cerovive has undergone the most rigorous round of animal testing ever for a stroke drug.
The next step for the team is to get the drug licensed for large animal and eventual human testing.
More disturbing is the hounding of Huntingdon Life Sciences, a drug testing firm, by animal rights activists who have terrorised its staff and frightened off bankers and investors.
Pfizer will explore the spinout or sale of its animal health and baby formula businesses, the drug giant says.
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One of its brands of insect-resistant corn, StarLink, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration only for use in animal feed.
In animal trials in 2001, Fibrogen's experimental drug cut collagen production by up to 70%.
In recent years, ketamine - developed as an animal and human anaesthetic - has become a recreational drug among the post-rave generation.
In other words, the genetically altered animal would be treated as though it were a new drug.
These animal tests led the U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration to request a partial ban on the sweetener in 1977.
Further trials of this compound are on hold because the drug caused cardiac toxicity at high doses in animal tests.
The activists threatened the action in letters sent to investors because the drug company uses Huntingdon Life Sciences , a controversial animal-testing company.
The drug maker said its executives had been targets of animal-rights extremists and "disease-specific extreme activists" who had printed fliers with photos of the company's leaders.
Known then as ZD1839 and later named Iressa, it not only slowed the growth of tumors in animal tests, it actually shrank them--a surprise because the drug wasn't expected to kill cancer cells.
The year ended particularly badly for activists when the White House reversed its political opposition to approving the first animal genetically modified for human consumption, a GM slamon that scientists at the Food and Drug Administration had determined was perfectly safe and nutritious.
They added that some animal studies had suggested the amygdala changes could indicate changes in the brain or damage resulting from drug use.
Pfizer's rival Merck is presenting animal data at the AHA meeting showing that torcetrapib does affect aldosterone but that its own HDL-booster drug, anacetrapib, does not.
Pfizer's rival Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) is presenting animal data at the AHA meeting showing that torcetrapib does affect aldosterone but that its own HDL-booster drug, anacetrapib, does not.
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