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Proteomics is all the rage in Europe as well. The British biotech Oxford GlycoSciences announced this month that it had filed for patents on 4,000 proteins. It has $280 million in cash reserves and is awaiting U.S. and European approval of a drug for Gaucher disease, a rare inherited disorder...
Genzyme, a Cambridge biotechnology company which is currently the world's fourth largest, was formed in 1981 as an enzyme manufacturing company, Push says. The key breakthrough for Genzyme was the discovery of an enzyme called GCR, which was used to treat a rare disorder, Gaucher disease...
...enzyme that manages Gaucher's disease, a rare genetic disorder that affects the spleen, liver and bones. Currently, the illness is treated with one of the world's most expensive drugs, derived from the human placenta...
Potentially, the neural progenitor strategy could be used to treat this wider group of genetic ailments, which include Tay-Sachs, Gaucher's disease, galactosemia and dozens of other maladies that affect millions of people worldwide...
Most people are somewhat comfortable with the idea of testing for Tay-Sachs, a fatal, degenerative neurological condition that strikes young children. However, many question the utility of DNA screening for other conditions like Gaucher's disease. The symptoms of this painful degenerative disease almost never appear before a person's mid-40s, and Gaucher's is treatable. Should the distant prospects of non-fatal disease prevent a marriage between two people who love each other? Inevitably, the more diseases added to the list, the more marriages prevented...