Biotech executives dread what they call "the valley of death, " the period of time between a drug's conception in a lab and its first clinical trial.

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When researching antibiotics, candidate substances are identified either by computer modeling or good old-fashioned trial and error in the lab.

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He sent it back to the lab for stringent testing on monkeys that would duplicate the human trial conditions.

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He sent it back to the lab for stringent testing on monkeys that would precisely duplicate the human trial conditions.

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Todd Gray, chairman and president of Autonomous ID, said this new CMU lab gives his company the needed research and development boost to field trial the primary identity apparatus dubbed BioSole and its cloud connected automation suite governing the access and use of controlled resources.

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They are to be congratulated on conducting a large, definitive outcomes trial, and one that focused on what happened to patients not just their lab tests.

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Los Alamos was the focus of a year-long controversy in 1999 over alleged security lapses involving a former lab scientist, who has been charged with illegally copying highly classified files and is awaiting trial.

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