What are the implications of personal genomes for drug discovery and development ? In the past decade‚ increasing amounts of dollars have been spent on drug development yet the amount of new drugs entering the market per year remains the same. Furthermore with 200 billion dollars of patents expiring in the past four years (Witty‚ 2010)‚ innovative pharmaceutical companies will need to look at new approaches to discover drugs. With the human genome being sequenced in 2003‚ a new field of science
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A Project Report On A Global Overview Of A FAST RELIEF Market Submitted in Partial fulfillment for the requirement of the Degree of Master of Business Administration (International Business) from SUS College of engineering and technology‚Tangori‚ Mohali.. Under the Guidance of: Submitted to: Mr. SUNIL Mr. ANIL Mr. PANKAJ SIR Submitted By: NANCY
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The illegal drug The legalization of drugs is a common topic in America today. Many believe that drug use should be legalized‚ but I completely disagree. Drugs are frequently used today and they are illegal‚ the consequences that would grow if they were made legal would be more than this country can take on. In my opinion‚ three main factors contribute to my opinion opposing legalizing drugs: health issues‚ the effects it would have on the criminal justice system‚ and the increase
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Computational Virtual Screening Towards Designing Novel Anticancer Drugs Po-Yuan Chen1‚2 1Department of Biological Science and Technology‚ China Medical University‚ Taichung‚ Taiwan‚ 2Brain Research Centre‚ University of British Columbia‚ Vancouver‚ 1Republic of China 2Canada 1. Introduction Generally speaking‚ Docking is most popular and critical issue in this research field‚ because it contains most important information both Ligands (Drugs) and Receptors (it can be intracellular protein‚ trans-membrane
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around the world are reforming healthcare and cutting spending. It is also outsourcing more research to partners to reduce risk. Its long-running collaboration with the US company‚ Theravance which is responsible for one of GSK ’s most promising new drugs‚ the asthma treatment Relovair‚ which is now in late-stage development. GSK recently upped its stake in Theravance to 19% and this is likely to be the pattern for other collaboration deals 1. GSK is currently pursuing strategies for growth and stability
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through to post-screening analysis. An integrated VS environment‚ which provides the friendly interface to seamlessly combine different-stage programs for VS and identifying the pharmacological interactions from screening compounds‚ is valuable for drug discovery. Here‚ we developed an easy-to-use graphic environment‚ iGEMDOCK‚ for the docking‚ virtual screening‚ and post-screening analysis. For post-screening analysis‚ iGEMDOCK can enrich the hit rate and provide biological insights by deriving the pharmacological
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iv) Reasons for Recent M&A Activity v) Analysis of Two Recent Mega-Mergers – Glaxo Wellcome / SmithKline Beecham – Pfizer / Warner Lambert vi) Do Drug Mergers Really Work vii) Possible Future Mergers viii) Implications of Biotechnology & Genetic Mapping ix) Conclusions x) Bibliography xi) Appendix
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of Indian players to produce cost-effective drugs with world class manufacturing facilities. Bulk drugs of all major therapeutic groups‚ requiring complicated manufacturing processes are now being produced in India. Pharma companies have developed Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) compliant facilities for the production of different dosage forms. In addition‚ India’s long-established position as a preferred manufacturing location for multinational drug manufacturers is quickly spreading into other
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Arturo benitez Period: 3 Date: 2/4/14 Why We Should Not Do Drugs? Thousands of young men have wasted their lives because of illegal drugs in the world. They were mostly victims of a bad influence‚ a broken-home family‚ of ignorance‚ or curiosity. The key reasons why people shouldn’t do drugs are that drugs are bad for your body‚ they ruin your life‚ and they cause addiction. First‚ drugs affect your body in many permanent ways like brain damage‚ heart problems‚ and hallucinations. Brain damage
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A drug is a substance which may have medicinal‚ intoxicating‚ performance enhancing or other effects when taken or put into a human body or the body .For other uses‚ see Drug (disambiguation). Page semi-protected Coffee is the most widely used psychoactive drug beverage in the world. In 1999‚ the average consumption of coffee was 3.5 cups per day per U.S. citizen.[1] Wine is a common alcoholic beverage.[2] A drug is a substance which may have medicinal‚ intoxicating‚ performance enhancing or
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