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...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...
...decades, the best treatment for malaria was an inexpensive medication called chloroquine, first discovered in Germany in 1934 by a researcher working for Bayer. Chloroquine was so effective that it seemed it might vanquish malaria forever. But by the 1970s, the drug had been used so widely to treat all kinds of fevers, not just those caused by malaria, that the malaria parasites became resistant and doctors had to turn to a second medication, called sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, or SP. But within five years, the parasites started to develop resistance to SP as well. Today resistance to both drugs is rampant...
...blue "Viagra" pills, knockoffs of Pfizer's erectile-dysfunction treatment, sealed in plastic bags and ready for shipment, according to Eli Lilly officials. Also seized were 750,000 tablets that were imitations of sexual-dysfunction drugs Cialis and Levitra, the former marketed by Eli Lilly and the latter by Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline...
...That Fuss For Nothing A month after the government controversially sanctioned planting Britain 's first genetically modified crops, German firm Bayer CropScience pulled out of the venture, citing excess red tape...