An experimental Pfizer drug extended the lives of patients who had a disease in which clumps of protein break apart into toxic substances that damage the heart.
An experimental Pfizer drug extended the lives of patients who had a disease in which clumps of protein break apart into toxic substances that damage the heart.
This morning, after 16 years and $2.5 billion in investment, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company Alnylam finally turned a 1998 biology breakthrough into a medicine: a drug called Onpattro to treat the destruction of nerves that results from a rare disea…