Prof van der Meer says the bacterial-based kits cope well with multiple samples, require fewer materials than standard chemical testing field kits, and are easy to prepare.
He has been shy about specifics but shedding underperformers like the electronics testing and chemical analysis businesses would free up management to concentrate on high-growth, high-profit areas like printers, software and its recordable CD-ROM product.
Synta, on the other hand, uses the same basic approach that drug companies have used for centuries: taking a library of thousands of chemical compounds, and testing those compounds one by one in the lab until something seems to work.
Agreements are imminent on strategic arms, chemical weapons, conventional forces and nuclear testing.
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Seeing the chemical's potential for on-site testing and its appeal to a wider market, the company, then called U.S. Drug Testing, changed its name.
The chemical industry's lobbyists argue that the cost of testing all these chemicals would be too high.
Other suspicious chemical discoveries in Iraq since the beginning of the war have, after additional testing, turned out to be pesticides or other industrial chemicals.
In 1996, China pledged to refrain from further assistance to Pakistan's unsafeguarded nuclear facilities, adopted a nuclear testing moratorium, signed the comprehensive nuclear test ban and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention.
At the time, the hot research area was in testing G-protein-coupled receptors, or GPCRS. These proteins transmit chemical signals into a wide variety of cell types.
The testing was done with petrochemicals in water (to replicate oil spills), and the rate of chemical uptake is the highest they've seen.
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Generic drugmaker Able Labs (nasdaq: ABRX - news - people ) is also high on Oberweis' list of top buys, along with chemical and pharmaceutical firm Aceto (nasdaq: ACET - news - people ) as well as medical testing company Biosite (nasdaq: BSTE - news - people ).
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