With the PD-18-4 we checked out a nav program, some eye tests, and a phone UI mockup.
The new Roche drug, being developed by its Genentech unit, inhibits a molecule called PD-L1.
The new anti-PD-1 inhibitor therapy, in essence, blocks the process that inhibits the immune system.
But some tumor cells have proteins that bind to the PD-1 receptors, shutting the immune cell down.
PD-1 "receptors" sit on the surface of immune-system cells when they're activated and on the hunt for enemies.
The experimental agent called nivolumab and Merck's drug, known as MK-3475, each work against a different mechanism called PD-1.
The new studies were the initial human trials of the two PD-1 agents.
Lumus was showing off two different types of wearable displays, the development kit -- or DK-32 shown above -- and the PD-18-4 a monocular version using the same technology.
Merck's PD-1 blocker, being tested in melanoma patients, was recently given "breakthrough" designation by the Food and Drug Administration, which could speed its path through the regulatory process.
Based on the new resultsRoche is planning to launch a late-stage trial of its PD-L1 inhibitor in lung-cancer patients, while Bristol-Myers is moving its combination regimen into late-phase studies as well.
One of the studies it helped fund has led to a promising antibody-based treatment called anti-PD-1, which activates the immune system against cancer and helps shrink or eliminate tumors in melanoma, lung, and kidney cancer patients.
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For copper, one of the biggest producers is Phelps Dodge (nyse: PD - news - people ), which is expected to earn just 20 cents per share in fiscal 2003, after two consecutive annual losses.
Furthermore, the implied 5-year PD from CDS spreads for Italy is above 35% and close to 40% for Spain, (Figure 3).
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The same poll found that a party headed by Mr Monti would get more votes than either the PD or the centre-right People of Freedom movement, founded by Mr Berlusconi.
Mr Bersani announced the news to his Democratic Party (PD) after many centre-left MPs refused to back his preferred candidate for president.
The biggest and most intractable of them has historic links with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
The comments were swiftly condemned by the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), which is ahead in the polls.
The CGIL's intransigence creates a special problem for one of them, its historic ally, the centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
In rejecting the centre-left candidate, voters implicitly rejected a form of bail-out negotiated by the PD with local industrialists.
The centre-left Democratic Party (PD) has just held a primary and confirmed Pier Luigi Bersani as its candidate.
And the leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), Pier Luigi Bersani, said "we encouraged Professor Monti to go ahead with determination".
Still, Il Cavaliere may not be making a full comeback, as the head of the center-left Partito Democratico (PD) Pier Luigi Bersani is expected to take the elections.
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The bill, which began its parliamentary journey this week, has been rejected outright by Italy's biggest trade-union federation, the CGIL. That stance has put the leaders of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) between the rock of their historic ties to organised labour and the hard place of support for the government.
Other new commissions include Death Comes to Pemberley, a three-part hour-long drama, adapted from PD James' bestselling novel.
Dee Jones, 33, was a nine-month rookie with the Bald Head PD.
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Mr Veltroni was, it is true, constantly undermined by Massimo D'Alema, a PD baron and former prime minister whose refusal to take a back seat weakened the centre-left.
His centre-right alliance PDL has been gaining ground but was still thought to be lagging behind the PD when a poll blackout was imposed earlier this month.
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Silvio Berlusconi's PDL and Enrico Letta's PD may be the heirs to Christian Democracy and Marxist ideology, but as in many other European democracies, centre-right and centre-left social democrat party policies now tend to converge.
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