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Clinical trial All new drugs undergo clinical trials before approval. Clinical trials are carefully conducted tests in which effectiveness and side effects are studied, with the placebo effect eliminated. Mentioned in: Gene Therapy, Multiple Sclerosis clinical trial, n a trial based upon the scientific method in which a control group and a test group are compared over time in order to study a single, differing factor. |
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| Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of clinical studies. Despite the optimism generated among scientists by successfulnew treatments, Friedman says the inadequate number of cancer patients in clinical studies is limiting progress--and that this lack of subjects is a problem in cancer research worldwide. With five clinical studies in progress, the goal is to build a deep pipeline of preclinical and clinical programs, conducted by partners, that may further validate the potentially pivotal role Inovio's technology may play in delivering and enhancing the potency of promising DNA vaccines as well as identify and validate promising DNA vaccines themselves. |
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