Companies are organized in such a way as to kill good ideas, not let them bloom, but at the same time they flood their pipelines with mediocre drug candidates in order to look busy, long before the development of those experimental medicines should have stopped.
However XCOR Aerospace, an experimental rocket-development company based in Mojave, California, begs to differ.
Merck halted development of a widely touted experimental drug after it flopped in trials for several types of tumors.
That's despite the fact that Merck has more than its share of blockbusters on the market, and innovative and promising experimental drugs in development.
One fascinating recent development in the realm of experimental science is the work of Ross King, a biologist and computer scientist at Aberystwyth University in Wales.
This productivity surge is supported by the large number of experimental medicines now in late stage development, especially in the area of oncology.
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Mobilise extra-budgetary financial resources for the project activities for the consolidation of all UNESCO activities linked to biodiversity conservation, ecosystem and protected area management using the biosphere reserves in the region as experimental sites for research and learning sites for sustainable development.
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Building on experiences developed so far, the Workshop intends to explore topics of common interest that could then be further investigated in the frame of a new coordinated experimental programme related to BRs in the region, allowing for the development of management guidelines and models to be extended to the most of the countries involved.
Parkinson's pathway: A cellular network linking various regions of the brain may play an important role in the development and progression of Parkinson's disease, research published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine suggests.
In a risky gambit to speed the development of breakthroughs, the South San Francisco biotech firm is planning to test combinations of multiple experimental cancer drugs simultaneously in new tumor types, instead of waiting for each one to be approved separately before combining them.
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