Old MacDonald's pharm
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The European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) approved to make the drug Atryn, which can make the blood flow, the human protein antithrombin that inhibits clotting, the first human protein made by a transgenic animal for commercial production. The market for patients with hereditary antithrombin deficiency is only about $50 million in Europe and the US combined but Atryn could find therapeutic uses for burns, coronary artery bypass surgery, sepsis and bone marrow transplants, for upto a $700-million market worldwide.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2006
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Stem cell imperative
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Embryonic stem cells are able to become any other cell in the body and a capability researches hope it can be used to cure organs damaged by disease. International stem cell company Stem Cell Sciences aims at developing stem cell therapy to treat diabetes and Parkinson's disease.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
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New movement in Parkinson's
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Genetic and cellular discoveries point to improved treatments for the neurological disorder called Parkinson. Parkinson's disease that was described in the early 1880s by British physician James Parkinson as 'shaking palsy,' is among the most prevalent neurological disorders.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
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