Word: toxication
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...antibodies then go through testing to make sure they will bind to cancer cells with the designated receptor, that they can be absorbed by the body and that they won't have toxic side effects. Some of these studies can be done in the lab, but they quickly move into animal and finally human subjects. Already, Millennium has 40 potential targets for monoclonal-antibody drugs against various cancers, and Tepper's goal is to generate 10 to 12 new ones each year...
...upstart Incyte Genomics, based in Palo Alto, Calif.--help pharmaceutical companies identify drug targets found exclusively in diseased cells. Others, like Phase-1 Molecular Toxicology of Santa Fe, N.M., sell chips that test how chemicals affect gene expression, allowing pharmaceutical firms to quickly reject candidate drugs too toxic to be worth pursuing...
...founded as a partnership between Venter and Haseltine to exploit the research coming out of TIGR, but the two parted ways in 1997. The company today holds U.S. patents on 159 genes and has four genomic compounds in clinical trials. These include a drug that curbs the toxic effects of chemotherapy and a drug that promotes wound healing...
...oncologists will put together cocktails of treatments, each using a different strategy to outfox the cancer. In the future, the cell-killing drugs of traditional chemotherapy will be combined with treatments that aim simply to stop tumors from growing. The latter includes the so-called antiangiogenic factors, relatively non-toxic compounds that blunt the growth of new capillaries...
...thing, the country is as sick of the subject as a mother who has delivered after a fourteen-month pregnancy. For another, the argument always ruins the evening. This election has fermented into a sort of darkening inebriant that makes people ugly. I find myself going on a toxic tear and firing off lines of crackpot dudgeon - pure postelectoral rant...