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Published online 12 December 2007 | Nature 450, 935 (2007) | doi:10.1038/450935a

News in Brief: Business

Euro tie-up

Swiss drug giant Novartis has extended its partnership with MorphoSys, a German biotechnology firm, saying it will pay at least US$600 million over 10 years as the price of working with the smaller company to help it discover and develop antibody-based medicines. If Munich-based MorphoSys meets milestones for clinical development and market approval, the payments could exceed $1 billion, the companies said on 2 December.

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