Sunday, January 14, 2007

More Rapamune mentions

Bioprospecting: Who has rights to nature's cures?
Seattle Times, WA - Jan 12, 2007
... Taxol owned by Bristol-Myers Squibb is taken from the bark of the yew tree, and Wyeth's kidney-transplant drug Rapamune comes from Easter Island soil. ...

Patent piracy
Online Athens (subscription), GA - Jan 14, 07
Wyeth's kidney transplant drug Rapamune comes from Easter Island soil. But bioprospecting is mostly unregulated and there are mounting calls to establish ...

Prospecting in the biosphere
Houston Chronicle, TX - Jan 14, 07
... owned by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. is taken from the bark of the yew tree, and Wyeth's kidney transplant drug Rapamune comes from Easter Island soil. ...

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