MUNICH, Germany - MediGene AG completed its second Phase III trial of Polyphenon E, a treatment for genital warts, getting significant clinical effects compared to placebo, as well as good tolerability. (BioWorld International)
To investigate a Chinese herbal drug that might hold the key to malaria, computer magnate Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are granting $42.6 million to a nonprofit group and fledgling Amyris Biotechnologies Inc., which will work with the University of California at Berkeley to develop artemisinin. (BioWorld Today)
That parental edict, heard less often in recent years, had as much to do with the hectored youngster's need for vitamin D (with which the disliked cow juice was enriched), as with the importance of calcium for bone strength.