It started it. It essentially was the industry which was unpacking the biology of cells and understanding how those biology cells could be used to make new medicines, a little different from what pharma was an pharma in the past was essentially trying out medicines on animals and seeing if they work and then put them into a human being a Clinical Trial process once we understood how the genes work, once we knew how to manipulate those jeans, a whole new ability to transform what we knew about cells into medicines came into being. This was areal revolution , and about in the 70s and walked through to the 80s and then now today there are approximately a couple thousand companies, about 700 of whom are members of bio, many are private. They are now much smaller industries in the europe and in asia and actually, these Small Companies although they are tiny and they represent no more than any one of the Big Companies in terms of numbers, theyre generating about 70 70 percent of all the medi
Chair discusses the coronavirus. Join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington host good morning. It is monday, july 13, 2020. A threehour washington journal ahead and we begin the day the race from the for the white house and we are three weeks away from Vice President joe biden announcing his running mate. We want to hear from democrats who do you think joe biden should pick to be on the 2020 ticket . Democrats in the eastern or central time zones can call in o 274 88000. You can also send us a text. Please include your name and where you are from. A good monday morning. As a reminder, joe biden has said he would pick a woman to be his running mate in 2020, so that helps narrow down the list, but were asking democrats who runninge joe bidens mate. This piece takes up the 11 most logical picks. The top three, congresswoman val demings of florida, senator Elizabeth Warren of massachusetts, and the number one pick, senator, harris of california. Aaron blake writes she has be
The biotech industry was formulated in the united states. It was an industry that was unpacking the biology of cells, understanding how the biology of these cells could be used to made new medicine to make new medicines. Pharma in the past was essentially trying out medicines on animals to see if they worked and then put them into a human being through a Clinical Trial process. Once we understood how the genes worked, how to manipulate those genes, a whole new ability to transform what we knew about cells into medicine came into being. This is a real revolution. It started in the 1970s, walked through the 1980s and now today. There are approximately a couple thousand companies, about 700 of whom are members of bio. Many others are private. There are smaller industries in and these in asia small companies, although tiny represent no more than anyone of the Big Companies in terms of numbers of employees, generating about 70 of all medicine. What is the difference . It is simple. In the b
Committee will come to order. Let me think our witness for your patience. We are now ready to proceed under the five minute rule and i will give myself five minutes to begin the question phase of the hearing. Over the last year, has taken a number of actions to reduce the ability of fha borrowers to utilize down payment assistance programs from governments and cities. To purchase a home and has indicated that it intends to issue a proposed rule affecting down payment assistance in january. Secretary carson testified before this committee in june that he was not familiar with the hud data that identifies which Government Entity is providing down payment assistance and it appears that hud cannot determine which Government Programs are providing down payment assistance for any fha loan. Which is critical before attempting to issue new regulations of government down payment assistance programs. Will you commit to not moving forward any rulemaking or other Administrative Changes related to
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