You are researching an "orphan disease" with no available treatment. Your lab develops a drug that mimics a lipophilic hormone thought to be lacking in the disease, and you are looking for a pharmaceutical company to partner with to run a clinical trial. Based on the reaction from each team, which would you choose to work with?

A. Company A: "What you've developed is wonderful, but we'll need to develop a delivery system to get the drug across the cell membrane."
B. Company B: "Your new drug seems very promising. Do you know which G-protein coupled receptor it binds to?"
C. Company C: "We're interested in developing this drug - it could really help people. Do you know which genes the hormone regulates?"


Answer: C

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