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With only two other MS drugs
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ple suffering worldwide from the
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at the Weizmann Institute, was
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of synthetic proteins, or polymers,
on animals. Under the auspices
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search, COP-1, the scientific name
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clinical trials at the
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marketplace.
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was beginning to
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al and central nervous system ad-
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ments gain
access to the
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$300 million worth of sales for the
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