Now that theory has been tested by scientists at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam.
John Kastelein of the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam was lead investigator of the ENHANCE study.
Kastelein, a cardiologist at the University of Amsterdam who has consulted for Merck.
Peter Cohen, of the Centre for Drug Research at the University of Amsterdam, followed a sample of cocaine users whom he describes as typical.
After Cordaptive was rejected, Merck canceled a trial of the drug run by the same outside scientist--John Kastelein of the University of Amsterdam--who ran the Vytorin trial.
Kastelein of the University of Amsterdam, was not even present when the companies made the controversial decision to change its goals, an unusual circumstance in such situations.
For those patients, this drug could be "a potential lifesaver, " says John Kastelein, a professor of medicine at the University of Amsterdam who is running Isis's current trials.
But a paper by two professors at the University of Amsterdam has found that gossip helps identify employees who are shirking their responsibility, making the office a more efficient place.
In an interview Friday, John Kastelein of the University of Amsterdam, the lead outside scientist conducting the trial, says he was not consulted about the timeline or the press release before it was issued.
"At his core he remains the same as he was when Ian Fleming started writing - he's sexist, he's misogynist, " says Christoph Lindner, professor of media and culture at the University of Amsterdam and author of The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader.
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Matthijs Koot, a PhD-student at the University of Amsterdam, created a code that crawls through the profiles, downloading all of the information in them including Twitter names, links to Picasa albums, work and education history and putting it into his database.
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John Kastelein, the University of Amsterdam researcher who conducted the studies with Isis, says that if physicians eventually get to add 301012 to their arsenal, it will be possible to get "virtually anyone" to the aggressively low cholesterol goals that have been set by government-organized committees.
John Kastelein, a cardiologist at the University of Amsterdam who is conducting a separate set of imaging studies of arteries in the neck, says that if torcetrapib removes plaque from the arteries over the course of two years in three different studies, it may still present a very compelling clinical benefit for patients.
Rik Scheper and his colleagues at the Free University of Amsterdam inadvertently stumbled across the major vault protein when they were looking for proteins important in drug resistance in tumour cells.
Then there is a point made by Richard Tol of VU University Amsterdam: farm yields show the worst of the situation.
Jan Smit, of the Free University in Amsterdam, is particularly critical.
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To remedy this problem, Kylie Catchpole of the Australian National University in Canberra and Albert Polman of the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam have been trying to redirect the light that falls onto the surface of a cell in such a way that all colours are efficiently absorbed.
"This is intended as a wake-up call, " said Andrew Tanenbaum, one of the researchers in the computer science department at Amsterdam's Free University that did the work revealing the weaknesses on smart tags.
Among his businesses is Oaksterdam University (a play on Amsterdam, where he got the idea), which teaches students all aspects of the weed, from the horticultural to the medical and legal, and has since spawned copycats elsewhere.
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