So the door is wide open for someone to develop a novel drug that doesn't rely on hormones.
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This is a horrific tale of six young males who, in 2006, volunteered for a phase 1 study for a novel drug, TGN1412.
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On the branded generics side, the company is heading full bore into novel drug delivery systems like the once-a-day version of Bayer antibacterial ciprofloxacin.
Their way may be made easier by novel drug-development technologies, such as pharmacogenomics, and new marketing methods, such as e-commerce, which will allow them to sell tailored drugs without the trappings of size.
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Author Jeet Thayil has won the DSC Prize for South Asian literature for Narcopolis, his Booker-nominated debut novel about drug addiction in Mumbai.
Arena was founded in San Diego by Lief, a veteran drug executive with experience at Abbott and Cephalon, and researchers Dominic Behan and Derek Chalmers, who had both left San Diego biotech Neurocrine Biosciences to pursue novel ideas about drug development.
Arena was founded in San Diego by Lief, a veteran drug executive with experience at Abbott and Cephalon (nasdaq: CEPH - news - people ), and researchers Dominic Behan and Derek Chalmers, who had both left San Diego biotech Neurocrine Biosciences (nasdaq: NBIX - news - people ) to pursue novel ideas about drug development.
It said the ruling also overlooked the novel delivery of its drug to cancer patients and took the matter to the Supreme Court.
One driver for CF patients has been the CF Foundation, which pioneered a novel approach of funding drug research directly in order to convince investors and drug companies to enter the field.
In order to get investors interested, SpringLeaf needed to get its hands on a large-molecule drug that had already been through the regulatory gamut so that its novel delivery system would greatly improve that mature drug by giving patients greater convenience and control and thus boosting sales of the combination.
The top left quadrant offers access to truly novel target biology with an injectable drug, which is an interesting mix.
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These constraints have discouraged drug companies from developing novel therapies.
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.
Other types of novel treatments are also heavily represented in the drug pipeline.
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Based on Philip K. Dick's classic novel, this animated Richard Linklater film is about a drug-addled and politically unstable world.
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In one incident, closely paralleled in his novel, a member of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration called on UBS managers and asked them to report suspicious transactions.
Now only half of compounds in testing are totally novel mechanisms, while others aim at improving well-known drug targets.
His work in drug-releasing polymers eventually led to the creation of a novel way to treat brain cancer.
The agency had its first big success this year when an important drug dealer was brought down by a sting operation and the novel use of wiretap evidence.
By decoding microbial DNA, drug researchers hoped to pinpoint key proteins that could be gummed up with novel druglike chemicals.
In that novel, the eighties were not merely a discrete historical period and so the book was not a historical novel because the fictional material (love of money, excess of all kinds, fashionable drug abuse, political opportunism, the scythe of AIDS) so easily spilled beyond its temporal borders.
It was difficult to adapt the novel by Don Winslow, who has written more than a dozen books, several about surfer dudes and drug lords.
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