The ultimate goal is to synthesize new drug molecules or new types of plastic.
And there is a perception on Wall Street that barriers to approval for some types of drug may actually have gone down.
Patients often have to take different types of drug several times a day and, with protease inhibitors and some other drugs, there are restrictions on what and when patients can eat.
They are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in several types of dementia and widely available internationally.
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He says it doesn't make sense for a drug to cause so many different types of tumors, or for it to affect cancer death but not how many cancers occur.
Medical experts consulted by The Associated Press have said the government's account of "systemic medical treatment" could mean various types of chemotherapy or drug treatments, depending on the type of cancer.
Three researchers won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for their work turning a protein found in jellyfish into a ubiquitous biotech tool that is used in drug discovery, genetic engineering and most types of research.
Merck halted development of a widely touted experimental drug after it flopped in trials for several types of tumors.
Most importantly, when the drug-treated mice were later presented with other types of foreign material their immune systems responded rapidly.
Now Genentech says the drug also extends the lives of patients with certain types of lung cancer for two months when combined with chemo, based on an 877-patient clinical trial.
Recently, the genomics company has detailed several promising new drug targets, including LDP-341, for certain types of cancer, and MLN4760, for obesity.
Other types of novel treatments are also heavily represented in the drug pipeline.
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Are these types of deals likely to shorten the time to liquidity for drug discovery deals, or once in the arms of a big bureaucracy will the pace of the projects slow and actually extend the timelines?
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This segment also reduces adverse drug events and potential medication errors, and offers infusion system that helps protect all types of infusions with proprietary dose error reduction software.
Novartis says it hopes next year to apply for approval for three additional drugs for various tumors types, including a new treatment for ovarian cancer, a new lymphoma medicine and a drug for Cushing's disease, a benign tumor in the pituitary gland.
Separately, Genentech is doing early-stage testing of 2C4, a drug that works by a novel mechanism to simultaneously disrupt both Her-2 and EGF in a variety of tumor types.
Read said Pfizer's mid- to late-stage drug pipeline "continues to strengthen with key potential opportunities, " including drugs for advanced breast cancer and three other types of cancer, one for high cholesterol and a meningococcal B vaccine for adolescents and young adults.
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