The firm dropped discovery and development in the areas of diabetes, virology, and neuroscience in favor of a research focus on oncology, heart failure, genetically defined diseases, immunoscience, and fibrotic diseases.
The government responded by agreeing to a plea bargain with a non-cooperation clause in exchange for the defense's dropping the discovery request; a rare event in any trial, and an about-face for the government.
Beef consumption has picked up in Europe and in Canada after initially dropping with the discovery of mad cow disease.
The jaw-dropping discovery, announced 3 months earlier in a paper in Nature, centers on a brain region called the entorhinal cortex.
The most jaw-dropping discovery?
But because of growing numbers of scientists in China, India and other lower-wage countries, "the cost of producing a new scientific discovery is dropping around the world," says Christopher T. Hill, a professor of public policy and technology at George Mason University.
In this occasion, the malicious mesh router can disrupt the route discovery by dropping the valid PREP message destined for the source mesh router and all traffic to the destination mesh router will be diverted through the attacker.
Whose jaw will drop at the discovery that prep schoolers learn a morally compromising sense of privilege and invincibility along with all those Latin verbs?
Merrill Lynch, for example, had no one assessing McDonald's late last month, when the share prices of fast-food restaurants and meat processors dropped after the discovery of a case of mad cow disease in Canada.
To remind us of how dangerous this all is, Discovery drops in a murky, shakily shot approximation of what an armed truffle poacher might look like, accompanied by ominous thunderclaps and recaps of scenes shown seconds before.
"And that is potentially alarming over the long term". In Massachusetts, the number of venture-capital deals in the area of drug discovery dropped from about 70 and 80 in 2007 and 2008, respectively, to under 60 in 2009.
