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Will failure impact Xenon's other programs?

 
• By Lisa LaMotta

Failure is fairly common in the world of biotech development as companies struggle to bring candidates forward, but the impact those results have on other candidates in development is what is really important to investors. For Xenon, the company is hoping a failure in osteoarthritis pain doesn't affect an ongoing study in neuropathic pain.

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