Pharma Goes to Work

VDJ Recombination A Transposase Goes to Work

ment, producing two coding ends and two signal ends. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Subsequent joiningof thecoding ends, forming a coding Baylor College of Medicine joint, assembles a rearranged TCR or Ig gene segment; Houston, Texas 77030 the signal ends also join, forming a signal joint. †Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Several features of VDJ recombination are reminisHoward Hug...

Metabolomics Goes to Work for You

Currently, biomarker research and the efforts for the application of the research not only for cancer diagnosis, but also for the diagnosis of nervous system disorders, immune diseases, and inflammatory diseases, are becoming more active. In particular, as companion diagnostics have stood out as a requirement for personalized treatment, a new trend has developed in which many multinational phar...

Pervasive Computing Goes to Work: Interfacing to the Enterprise

6 PERVASIVEcomputing 1536-1268/02/$17.00 © 2002 IEEE T he paperless office is an idea whose time has come, and come, and come again. To see how pervasive computing applications might bring some substance to this dream, I spoke recently with key managers and technologists at McKesson Corporation (San Francisco), a healthcare supplier, service, and technology company with US$50 billion in sales l...

Pharma goes to the laundry: Public relations and the business of medical education.

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