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Nature Medicine 9, 981 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nm0803-981a

'Emancipated' biotechs offer new drugs for neurodegeneration

Paroma Basu1

  1. New York

Six new drugs for the rare neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are poised to enter clinical trials this fall. Of those, two—ritonavir and hydroxyurea—are products of a tiny, young nonprofit biotechnology company.