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Gilead tags Merck for first-line triple negative breast cancer trial

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COVID-19 therapy Veklury (remdesivir) continued to lead the charge at Gilead with a massive $1.9 billion was a healthy 13% rise, taking Veklury out of the equation would have resulted in a 3% decline. The post Gilead tags Merck for first-line triple negative breast cancer trial appeared first on. billion for the full year.

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Targeting a human protein may stop Ebola virus in its tracks

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Back in 2018, researchers tested a broad-spectrum antiviral candidate called remdesivir/VEKLURY, which acts as a nucleotide decoy to get incorporated into the viral RNA genome and stop viral polymerase. In fact, antiviral therapies designed to treat viruses such as hepatitis C (Sofosbuvir/SOVALDI) work by blocking viral polymerase.

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