Agios also is likely, based on its existing competencies, to focus on making small molecules, not the expensive proteins that currently dominate the rare disease space.
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My view is that competency in the rare earths space is an indication of where any nation plans to go in the next 50 or 100 years in things like energy, metallurgy, materials and environmental control.
Now it is the centre of a space race to mine rare minerals to fuel our future - smart phones, space-age solar panels and possibly even a future colony of Earthlings.
Allied with the island's compact urban environment -- huge expanses of open space are rare -- and you get an unhealthy "visual lifestyle, " says the health ministry's Rajan.
On rare occasions, the falling bits of space debris do hit now-populated areas.
They included the one known as STS-107, which, after years of delays, went into space in mid-January for a rare mission devoted solely to science.
But on a rare foray forward they had a sight of goal when Kalinic worked some space in the City box only to have his shot blocked by the on-rushing Hart.
The Hubble Space Telescope recently spied a cluster of young blue stars surrounding a rare mid-weight black hole that suggests the black hole was once at the center of a dwarf galaxy.
"We are planning to build a permanent base on the moon by 2015 and by 2020 we can begin the industrial-scale delivery... of the rare isotope helium-3, " said Nikolai Sevastianov, head of Russian space vehicle manufacturer Energia, at a seminar in Moscow in January.
Materials such as platinum and rare earth elements are crucial to electronics, increasingly scarce on Earth and abundant in space.
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