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Looking for a fairy godmother to back a brilliant business idea? As Tony Reichhardt reports, a group of them probably meets for breakfast once a month at a hotel near you.
Instead of the painstaking process of developing new drugs, one Boston-based company is making its mark by pairing up those we already have. Meredith Wadman reports.