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  Billionaire Piramal Buys Drug Data Firm for $635 Million

  Piramal Healthcare Ltd., controlled by Indian billionaire Ajay Piramal, agreed to buy Decision Resources Group LLC, a health-care research provider, for $635 million to tap increasing demand for drug market information.

• Alzheimer’s Research Effort Seeks New Treatments by 2025

  An $80 million national research plan to attack Alzheimer’s, a mind-robbing malady that may affect as many as 16 million Americans by 2050, will start this year with U.S.-sponsored studies on ways to prevent the disease in high- risk people, and treat it with an insulin nasal spray.

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  College or Funeral Is Mother’s Wish Denied on DNA Results

  Camilla Grondahl asked genetics researcher Gholson Lyon a simple, heartbreaking question: Was she carrying a lethal gene that might kill her unborn baby?

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  Seau’s Brain Seen Offering Special Insight Into NFL Hits

  For several years, researchers have been trying to understand a condition that’s haunting players of contact sports with symptoms similar to Alzheimer’s disease.

• Misbehaving Protein May Provide Clue to Alzheimer’s Drug

  Scientists have glimpsed proteins turning into the distinctive clumps of Alzheimer’s disease, an action that takes a millisecond or less, providing researchers with clues on drugs to target the ailment.

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  Piramal Shunning Bankers Show India Challenge for Fees

  Indian billionaire Ajay Piramal may spend $1 billion to acquire biotechnology and defense assets for his health care-to-real estate empire. Investment bankers are unlikely to get a share of that money.

• Eli Lilly CEO Says Cost Cutting Won’t Solve Drug Sales Loss

  Eli Lilly & Co., facing generic competition to two of its top drugs, needs to rely on new medicines rather than cost-cutting to overcome the revenue loss, Chief Executive Officer John Lechleiter said.

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  Harvard Mapping My DNA Turns Scary as Threatening Gene Emerges

  Four months after I walked into a lab at Harvard University and gave a vial of blood to have my genome sequenced, my search to understand my DNA led me to Mark Sanders, a former Indiana firefighter.

• Brain Size and Shrinkage Predicts Alzheimer’s Disease in Harvard Study

  Doctors may one day be able to identify a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease by examining the size of the brain, researchers said.

• Scientists Unravel Protein’s Link to Halting Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice

  Scientists for the first time explained the role of a protein in the slow destruction of brain cells in Alzheimer’s disease, pinpointing a potential new target for treatments.

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