But she couldn't get her drug screen for integrase blockers to work with the robots Merck had at the time.

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In the 1990s several big pharmaceutical firms, including Bayer AG of Germany, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, formed alliances with Chinese research institutes or companies that specialized in traditional Chinese medicines, aiming to apply modern drug-hunting techniques to screen Chinese herbal medicines for potential Western blockbusters.

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In the 1990s several big pharmaceutical firms, including Bayer (nyse: BAY - news - people ) AG of Germany, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, formed alliances with Chinese research institutes or companies that specialized in traditional Chinese medicines, aiming to apply modern drug-hunting techniques to screen Chinese herbal medicines for potential Western blockbusters.

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The WHO has praised the UK's "Find and Treat" service, which uses a mobile X-ray van to screen homeless people and drug addicts for TB.

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Another notable was hepatitis C drug developer Pharmasset, which managed to be one of the five biggest gainers in my stock screen despite already having more than quintupled in price over the past 52 weeks.

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If doctors could not first screen for that gene, which is present in a quarter of breast cancer cases, the drug would be far less useful.

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