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...affair with all things related to the boys from Liverpool. The video montage that accompanied the medley, however, did not make sense - it was a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, hidden in a riddle and displayed on huge screens on either side of the stage for a few hundred thousand people to try and figure out. The video montage was a rambling, random stream of images - the earth from space, soccer star Pele, AC/DC in concert, Freddie Mercury blowing kisses, wildlife shots, etc. At first I thought I was having somebody else's acid flashbacks from Woodstock '69. Then, when...
Currently, Guilford Pharmaceuticals in Baltimore, Md., and Amgen in Thousand Oaks, Calif., are collaborating on a synthetic neurotrophic compound that can be taken orally and then travels to the brain, where it bonds with proteins in dopamine neurons. The tricky part is that most trophic molecules are too big to move across the miniscule blood vessels in the brain, so Guilford and Amgen are working on a smaller one that can get where it needs to go. The progress so far is promising. "We're in Phase 2 human trials now," says Dr. Craig Smith, president of Guilford. "Although...
Irwin Hentschel called a fellow street soldier, and it looks like Tammy will get another try at rehab. An old joke about the elder Bush's social policy went like this: A thousand points of light, batteries not included. Noel Irwin Hentschel comes with batteries. Are there 999 more...
...continue working on. That was in 1996. Now, thanks to the efforts of nearly 40 scientists--some at Bristol-Myers' Wallingford, Conn., research institute, others at SIBIA Neurosciences, based in La Jolla, Calif.--the number of compounds derived from these two templates has expanded to more than a thousand...
...Diego, for example, has zeroed in on the interactions between CD4 T cells and APCS to make antibody drugs against lupus and RA. The company's anti-RA antibody selectively switches off T cells involved in autoimmune responses by binding the CD4 molecule on their surfaces. Amgen, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., has a drug that blocks Interleukin-1, another molecule that promotes inflammation...