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DARPA Neurotechnology: The Deep Dive

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There was nothing left over for human trials, until an opportune call came from Elon Musk’s secretary. The money was earmarked for human trials and, afterward, to develop a neural prosthesis that could augment memories in healthy adults. ” Musk later wrote a check for one million dollars.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You The cost of artificially short expiration dates: Worsened shortages, higher costs and more waste

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Such a situation is commonplace in the clinical trial realm, in which investigational drug products which are not already FDA approved are administered to patients. Under the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013 (PAHPRA) , the FDA also has some authority to extend MCM expiration dates.

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Levers for Biological Progress

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Although Amodei does acknowledge some real-world issues limiting scientific progress — such as the slow growth of organisms and tedious clinical trials — he mostly passes over the more general tools that will be required to accelerate research in the near term. This essay focuses on how we might do both, specifically for the cell.

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The Pursuit of Parenthood

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After six years of such trials, Rock marveled as fertilized eggs formed zygotes and entered the cleavage stage of embryonic development. Various techniques for using abnormal sperm in fertilization were trialed through the late 1980s, but by 1995, the clear winner was intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Since IVF in the U.S.

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Life-Saving Drugs and Chicken Bones: California Court Expands Innovator Duties of Care

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The FDA approved the defendant’s first TDF drug in 2001, and the company started its first clinical trial on a different compound—tenofovir alafenamide (“TAF”)—about a year later. The court also assumed that physicians naturally would prescribe the “newer” TAF once the FDA approved it. at *48-*50.

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Yet Another Update on Medical Abortion Litigation: PhRMA’s Amicus Brief in Support of Petition for U.S. Supreme Court Review of the Fifth Circuit Decision

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FDA/Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. LLC litigation, in which an anti-abortion group is seeking to invalidate regulatory actions taken by the FDA with regard to mifepristone , a pharmaceutical FDA-approved for use in the termination of pregnancy to ten weeks, in combination with misoprostol. Danco Labs., See 21 U.S.C.§

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California Court Considers Expanding Tort Law in “Duty to Innovate” Case

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The FDA approved the defendant’s first TDF drug in 2001, and the company started its first clinical trial on a different compound—tenofovir alafenamide (“TAF”)— about a year later. So the plaintiffs pivoted. That is how we got to oral argument in the California Court of Appeal.