Globally Roche is huge in cancer therapies, but it leads in many tiny markets, too, like avian flu cures.

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Of course like many things in sports winning cures everything.

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Liberal ideas like lower taxes and less bureaucracy are economic cures.

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The research is considered critical by many scientists and disease advocacy groups, who say it could lead to treatments -- or even cures -- for conditions like diabetes and Parkinson's.

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Scientists and advocacy groups believe stem cell research could help find cures for debilitating diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

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The combo causes flu-like symptoms and anemia, but cures 40% of patients.

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Scientists and advocacy groups view embryonic stem cell research as perhaps the best hope for finding cures for debilitating diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

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Like a cynical quack, Mr Sarkozy prescribes homeopathic cures in which policies like protectionism are so much diluted that they cease to function.

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With fuel prices down we may get back to doing that and put the miracle cures, like hybrids and hydrogen engines, back on the experimental track where they belong.

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It is going to be extremely difficult to find the cures for big diseases like cancer unless we start to get hold of some of this information.

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Farming is not like medicine, with a biotech drug that cures in Peoria having the same effect in Paris.

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