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Deliberate Dysentery

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You can do a challenge trial with deadly diseases, but you need a “rescue therapy.” With hepatitis C, what changed within the last 10 years was the development of direct-acting antivirals , or DAAs, which are packaged into pills that you can take once a day for a few months. That's not coincidental.

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Article EMA Thank You What will the orphan drug market exclusivity haircut mean for industry?

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Here, we’re starting some deeper analysis of aspects of the proposal package with a look at the impact of orphan drug provisions, seeing what impact the new provisions and the surrounding uncertainty might have on innovation. High-priced cell and gene therapies are being increasingly developed for rare diseases.

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Origins of the Lab Mouse

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That is—until the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel showed that traits are passed from parent to offspring in discrete, independently assorted packages. Without mouse models, we may never have developed polio and meningitis vaccines, organ transplants, GLP-1 drugs, gene therapies , or any other number of transformative treatments.