Sunday, 19. January 2003
Topic: - on January 19, 2003 at 12:20:01 PM CET
Designer Drugs: Fact or Fiction?
The Human Genome Project created many breathless headlines promising, among other things, designer drugs for everyone. But the project's failure to bring about miraculous changes in health care burst biotech's stock market bubble.
The World Economic Forum, to be held in Davos, Switzerland, starting Jan. 23, will gather pioneering biotech executives to discuss the promise of drugs tailored to each person's genetic makeup: Are they hype, or are financial markets simply too impatient for science's comparatively slower pace?
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