Word: bayer
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...plays hardball," says Redpath, "governments could just say, 'we're going to overturn the patent. This is a national emergency.'" Such moves would not be unprecedented. After anthrax mailings following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks stoked biosecurity concerns, the Canadian and the U.S. government told the German drug firm Bayer that if it did not ramp up production and sell its anti-infective Cipro at a reasonable cost, they would do so themselves. Bayer wound up cutting its prices by 55% and boosted production...
...Bayer, Bufferin, Ecotrin and others
...book succeeds because, unlike in real life, Jacobs (an Esquire editor and NPR contributor) confines his written observations on Encyclopaedia Britannica articles to jottings the length of entries in Schott's Original Miscellany. (Among the facts he highlights: the Bayer company invented heroin; toward the end of his life, Nathaniel Hawthorne constantly scribbled "64" on scraps of paper; René Descartes liked cross-eyed chicks.) Instead, he uses his book, which is organized by Encyclopaedia Britannica entries, to do what he has done best as a magazine writer: stunt journalism. The entry on "Vital Fluid" leads to a story about getting...
...symphony by eliminating all the flutist's notes from the score. Pharmaceutical firms can use the information gleaned from gene silencing to design more-effective drugs. Thanks to the funding and freedom Echeverri and his two collaborators, Anthony Hyman and Pierre Gonczy, have received, Cenix is now working with Bayer to screen some 6,000 genes identified by Bayer as potential targets for drug development...
...once-in-a-lifetime chance to prove that his theories actually worked. So when the new Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics opened in Dresden in January 2001, Echeverri and his team moved in. Now, from its new labs, Cenix is working with drugmakers like Bayer AG to develop medicines based on an understanding of the roles of specific genes...