Ocera Therapeutics, Inc. Pursuing New Drug for Liver, Hopes to Help People Stay Mentally Sharp

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Xconomy.com -- The liver is hot in the biotech world. Cambridge, MA-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX) has made headlines this year with an antiviral drug that it hopes will do for hepatitis C—a chronic liver-damaging condition affecting millions of people—what a previous generation of treatments did for HIV.

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