It is known to confer cross-resistance to a class of related antibiotics, including the human drug called vancomycin.
Working collaboratively across state lines and international borders to fight human and drug trafficking, money laundering and consumer fraud is a far better use of law enforcement resources than arresting landscapers and nannies.
Other companies performing badly included lupus drug maker Human Genome Sciences and gout drug maker Savient Pharmaceuticals, which also faced a markedly bigger-than-expected second quarter loss.
Benhamou, who has pled guilty and awaits sentencing, tipped off Skowron that a hepatitis drug that Human Genome was working on had run into problems during its drug trials.
It is one of a new wave of ultratargeted treatments moving through human testing at drug and biotech companies.
Biogen and ZymoGenetics took a slightly different tack, creating therapeutic proteins that soak up excess amounts of BLYS. ZymoGenetics, working with partner Serono, has just begun human trials of its drug, TACI-IG, while Biogen and partner Genentech hope to begin human testing of their compound in 2005.
Human Genome Sciences is developing a drug, Albuferon, a combination of the human protein albumin and interferon.
Three of the more significant new positions the M100 took last week were in biotech, where they bought genome mapping company Human Genome Sciences, drug developer Biogen Idec and vaccine developer ID Biomedical.
Cyberonics' poker-chip-size device, surgically implanted in the chest, is approved for treating drug-resistant epilepsy and has moved into final-stage human tests for the far bigger market of drug-resistant depression.
They are the serious criminals leading the gangs responsible for drug dealing, human trafficking and fraud.
The report also raises concerns over human trafficking, corruption, drug trafficking and tax crime in the sport.
Without Kosan's technology it would be tough to affordably produce enough quantities of the drug to conduct human trials.
Initial human tests suggested that the drug might help patients with ibs.
While GSK's partner Human Genome Sciences invented the drug, Glaxo invested in HGS' gene-hunting technology back in 1993 and stayed the course even after murky early results.
The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is watching new human trials of the antiseizure drug topiramate (Topamax) to study the effectiveness of dual treatment for alcohol and cocaine addiction.
It grows in intensity and cost every year, and it saps us of important resources that should be devoted to more important crime-fighting such as human smuggling, or to drug treatment.
On the basis of this discovery, DeCode recently began human trials of an old asthma drug that counteracts the bad genes, hoping this will slash heart attack risk.
Human Genome Sciences (nasdaq: HGSI - news - people ) is developing a drug, Albuferon, a combination of the human protein albumin and interferon.
Wall Street expected a lupus drug Glaxo was developing with Human Genome Sciences to fail.
In theory, disease could also spread if the animal microbes pass their drug-resistant genes to human bacterial strains.
Recently Merck researchers found potential HIV drug targets by scanning the human genome.
Such thinking permits the design of drug molecules to treat complex human diseases or to modify other difficult biological disorders.
Should it demand additional, longer-term human studies of liraglutide before approving the drug that could reassure people that the risk is low?
Its goal: to come up with ways technology can be used to help dismantle illicit networks, from the drug and arms trades to human trafficking.
Millennium's drug, now in early human trials, homes in on prostate cancer cells and aims to obliterate them with a precise dose of toxic chemotherapy while leaving surrounding tissue untouched.
Geron and GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric, are developing and commercializing cellular assay products derived from human embryonic stem cells for use in drug discovery, development and toxicity screening.
Professor Fugger from the Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit said the fact the drug was already licensed would speed up the process of getting the treatment to patients should it be prove effective.
General Electric ( GE - news - people ), are developing and commercializing cellular assay products derived from human embryonic stem cells for use in drug discovery, development and toxicity screening.
He added the MRC had filed a patent for developing ways to manipulate cAMP with regards to body clock but there were 15 to 20 years of experiments before any drug would be available for human use.
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