Old MacDonald's pharm

Article Abstract:

The European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) approved to make the drug Atryn, which can make the blood flow, the human protein antithrombin that inhibits clotting, the first human protein made by a transgenic animal for commercial production. The market for patients with hereditary antithrombin deficiency is only about $50 million in Europe and the US combined but Atryn could find therapeutic uses for burns, coronary artery bypass surgery, sepsis and bone marrow transplants, for upto a $700-million market worldwide.

Government regulation, Blood Clot Dissolvers, Biological products industry, Licensing, certification and accreditation, Fibrinolytic agents, Thrombolytic drugs, European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products, GTC Biotherapeutics Inc.

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Stem cell imperative

Article Abstract:

Embryonic stem cells are able to become any other cell in the body and a capability researches hope it can be used to cure organs damaged by disease. International stem cell company Stem Cell Sciences aims at developing stem cell therapy to treat diabetes and Parkinson's disease.

Australia, Science & research, Research, Biotechnology industry, Biotechnology industries, Structure, Embryonic stem cells, Stem Cell Sciences

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New movement in Parkinson's

Article Abstract:

Genetic and cellular discoveries point to improved treatments for the neurological disorder called Parkinson. Parkinson's disease that was described in the early 1880s by British physician James Parkinson as 'shaking palsy,' is among the most prevalent neurological disorders.

United States, Brain research

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