gene drug

apolipoprotein E4 gene | epsilon-4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene | APOE-epsilon-4 allele | Apo E epsilon4 allele

restorer [ restorer gene | fertility restorer gene ]

nitrogen fixation gene [ nitrogen fixing gene | nif gene ]

ethical drug | medicinal product subject to medical prescription | prescription drug | prescription medicine | prescription only medicine | prescription-only medicinal product | Rx drug | POM [Abbr.]

In order to make a drug, you need to understand the genetic composition, so you go from identifying the gene to eventually producing the drug.

Two other probes are ongoing: the Commission is investigating Servier and other pharmaceutical companies concerning practices potentially delaying the market entry of generic perindopril, a cardio-vascular medicine (see IP/12/835); the Commission is also investigating Cephalon and Teva concerning an agreement which may have hindered the entry of generic Modafinil, a medicine used to treat sleeping disorders (IP/11/511).

We're looking at comorbidities, such as melanoma and diabetes, a whole series of genetic risk factors, target genes as well as polymorphisms, and a number of drugs that are used to treat Parkinson's disease, whether they have any, and a number of drugs that people may be taking, such as anti-hypertensives, and their role in the onset of Parkinson's. When we have finished this very ambitious study we will have covered the world's literature through to the present time on what we know at this point in time about the causes of all these neurological conditions.

Biodiversity — the extraordinary variety of ecosystems, species and genes that surround us — is our life insurance, giving us food, fresh water and clean air, shelter and medicine, mitigating natural disasters, pests and diseases and contributes to regulating the climate.