But pharmaceuticalchemist Derek Lowe repeats a more memorable tale while writing a post about a book called Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs.
The Pfizer scientists "have thrown down the gauntlet: They claim that the reported Sirtris compounds do not do what they are claimed to do, " pharmaceuticalchemist Derek Lowe, wrote recently on his popular In The Pipeline blog.
"Patenting big swaths of important biochemical pathway space has the potential to turn drug development into even more of an expensive nightmare than it already is, " pharmaceuticalchemist Derek Lowe wrote in his blog, In The Pipeline, last month.