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• n  a glycoside formed by partial hydrolysis of a nucleic acid

• AZT as a single agent, and perhaps some of the nucleoside analogs did prolong life, and have prolonged lives.
• The likeliest candidates: Lesch-Nyhan syndrome; adenosine deaminase deficiency, an immune disorder of the type that killed the famous "Bubble Boy"; and purine nucleoside .

News & Articles

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• Merck’s Investigational HIV Therapy, Doravirine (MK-1439), Demonstrates Antiviral Activity in Phase 2B Study of ...
  Merck , known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today presented data from the dose-ranging portion of an ongoing Phase 2B clinical trial of doravirine, the company’s investigational next-generation, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor , at the 21st Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections .
  March 5, 2014 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance