Elsewhere, Celera Diagnostics, Abbott Labs and closely held Genomic Health also are pursuing prognostic gene tests for prostate cancer (and other tumors).

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For targeted therapies, it would be smart to include companies that make targeted diagnostics--such as Vysis , a division of Abbott Labs (nyse: ABT - news - people ) that makes a version of the Herceptin test--from the outset.

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The suburban Chicago drug and medical product giant is splitting into a medical products business that will be called AbbVie, and trade under a new ticker symbol, ABBV, while the other company will retain the Abbott name and largely be focused on medical products including devices, diagnostics and nutritional products.

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