The CF Foundation was the first patient charity to do something radical: pay for drugs to be invented and tested in people.
The volatility of the underlying asset can be difficult to measure or guess, especially since it is not always clear what it is if, for example, it is yet to be invented.
Approval also would be a triumph for Adams--the second time he has invented a medicine and steered it through development.
Indeed, many a professional novelist would be proud to have invented the character of Geoffrey Robinson, Labour member for Coventry North West.
The original Star Wars film released in 1977 stunned the Hollywood establishment for its brash reliance on special effects, many of which had to be invented by Industrial Light and Magic, the company Lucas started in 1975 to make the film.
The first practical application of embryonic stem cells was to provide a way for the gene-targeting trick invented by Dr Capecchi and Dr Smithies to be used to produce adult mice lacking particular genes or knockout mice, as they are now called.
Antonio Criminsi of the Machine Learning and Perception group - the team which in effect invented the visual recognition system of Kinect - demonstrated how Kinect's underlying technology can be adapted for medical diagnosis.
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American entrepreneur Malcolm McLean invented the shipping container in 1956, but it took a decade for its stunning effectiveness to be revealed as it went to use supplying the military during the Vietnam War.
It would be another bit of sweet vindication for Xerox PARC, which was maligned for years as the lab that invented great stuff--the computer mouse, the point-and-click interface, Ethernet networking--but did little to let Xerox shareholders cash in on it.
Paul Hawkins invented a system that is used for key decisions in tennis and the ball-tracking device will be tried out at Reading's academy.
Imagine where we'd be today if Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, had been prosecuted like my son -- instead of praised for his service to humanity.
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