Word: developable
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...simple, inexpensive contraceptive that would change women's lives--and save some as well. Now she was 80 and retired from her globe-trotting efforts. No one from G.D. Searle & Co., the drug firm, thought to call the woman who had pioneered and pushed for funding to develop the world's first birth-control pill, called Enovid-10, a synthetic combination of hormones that suppresses the release of eggs from a woman's ovaries. Nor did she hear from John Rock and Gregory Pincus, the doctors who developed the oral contraceptive with $3 million that Sanger had raised from...
...cherished to-do list. In the State Department, Powell was working on a plan for "smart sanctions" on Iraq--tightening the porous U.N. embargo while allowing more humanitarian support for innocent Iraqis. The neoconservatives weren't impressed, but in those initial months they were able to do little to develop their own strategies for ousting Saddam...
...surely it is not presumptuous to suggest that freedom isn't easily imposed by outsiders, that it is nurtured slowly and indigenously and may develop in ways that we find strange. A disciplined American humility will be essential, and the reconstruction of Iraq is the first test. Will we welcome other countries as partners--and take the edge off the occupation by inviting the U.N. to play an active role in rebuilding the government--or will we run it arrogantly, unilaterally, colonially? The second test, an evenhanded effort to resolve the Middle East conflict, will be harder still. Beyond those...
...immune system, IgE apparently evolved to help our ancestors fight off parasitic worms. These days, however, parasitic worms aren't so common--especially in urban areas--and IgE has become something of a nuisance. The higher the level of IgE in your body, the more likely you are to develop allergic reactions to otherwise harmless stuff, like peanuts. IgE-triggered allergies also seem to play a role in certain cases of asthma. Over the past decade, researchers have developed specialized compounds, called monoclonal antibodies, to block the action of IgE and dampen the body's allergic reactions...
...probably guessed, TNX-901 is an anti-IgE antibody. Here's where the business complications come in. Three companies--Genentech, Tanox and Novartis--have been working in partnership since 1996 to develop anti-IgE therapies. Their lead anti-IgE product, called Xolair, could be approved for the treatment of allergic asthma by the Food and Drug Administration as early as this summer. When Tanox decided to develop TNX-901 on its own, Genentech and Novartis objected, saying that would dilute their development efforts. Last October arbitrators ruled that Tanox cannot be the sole developer of TNX-901, leaving what looks...