This compound is the first in a new class of medicines to advance to this stage of clinical research.

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And then this is all enabled in particular by a new class of IT-centric real-time imaging called microseismic monitoring.

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"It appears that this is a class effect, " New England Journal of Medicine Editor Jeffrey Drazen writes in a blunt editorial accompanying the three studies.

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This new feature is part of our drive to make the web a first class part of Ubuntu.

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This reduction in inequality has a racial component, because 75% of the new middle class is non-white.

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"Achieving this speed at Bonneville shows that the all-new 2013 Jetta Hybrid is a distinctly different offering in the compact hybrid class, " said Jonathan Browning, CEO and President, VW Group of America.

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New markets seldom get built this way, unless the consumer experience is so compelling and the brand so powerful that people will consider a totally new class of product (see the iPad, which demonstrates just how high a bar those criteria are to meet).

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