"Patenting big swaths of important biochemical pathway space has the potential to turn drug development into even more of an expensive nightmare than it already is, " pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe wrote in his blog, In The Pipeline, last month.

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These technology development initiatives have the potential to afford the armed forces the means to exercise space dominance.

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