Merck, GE to collaborate on Alzheimer's drug development (Yahoo)

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Merck, GE to collaborate on Alzheimer's drug development (Yahoo)

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12-18-2012, 09:10 AM	#1
NewsBot News Gatherer Community Support Team Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 38,686 My Mood:	Merck, GE to collaborate on Alzheimer's drug development (Yahoo) (Reuters) - Merck & Co and General Electric Co's healthcare unit have agreed to collaborate on an experimental drug for Alzheimer's disease, the companies said on Tuesday. GE Healthcare will supply Flutemetamol, an investigational imaging agent, to Merck for use with its experimental Alzheimer's disease drug MK-8931. The companies hope GE's imaging agent will help identify patients who might benefit from a therapy such as Merck's, which targets beta amyloid, a protein that can clump together and form plaques in the brain. ... Read the full article... (From Yahoo Diseases)

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