But if a drug has already been through enough tests in cell cultures and lab animals to justify starting clinical trials, the odds of success have risen to one in nine.
Less than three years ago, bioinformaticians at Stanford University set out to capture information buried, not just in insurance claims, lab tests or medical codes, but in the rich narrative of 10 million clinical notes gleaned from 1.8 million patients on Epic Systems electronic health records.
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Amazingly absorbent, cork has shown its ability to soak up oil spills in lab tests.
Melamine, an industrial chemical used in plastics and adhesives, mimics the presence of protein in lab tests.
The Good Housekeeping Institute found little benefit in lab tests of several shields.
In lab tests, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine were able to overcome these natural barriers.
Some scientists say there is insufficient real-world evidence to show the new sanitizers work as well as they do in lab tests.
No resistance to PolyMedix' drug has emerged in standard lab tests.
In an attempt to stave off Arya's decline until something better came along, her parents and doctors decided to try hydroxyurea, an old cancer drug that had been shown to boost levels of the neuron-nourishing protein somewhat in preliminary lab tests.
While we don't do lab tests, in our real office tests of transferring Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Word and Excel files, the machines equipped with Airport Extreme cards clearly outpaced those using the older ones.
Sources familiar with the investigation say the dress has now completed preliminary tests at the FBI crime lab in Washington.
Mr. Tetro works in a university lab that does tests for hand sanitizers, including Purell.
In the 1990s, Russian chemist Sergey Bachurin showed it had potential for improving cognition in a variety of lab-animal tests.
Lab tests claim a 30% gain in performance for microprocessors.
Insurers increasingly are requiring home tests as a first step before paying for an in-lab test.
Impure placebos also include lab tests or physical exams that are given simply in order to reassure patients.
Well, BPA has undergone many thousands of lab tests, and shown to be safe for use in humans.
Tiny amounts of metal found in frozen drinks machines were similar to those found in food cooked in cast iron or stainless steel pans, according to independent lab tests, and posed no health risk, the firm added.
The virus was found in 10 cats out of 111 submitted to the Bristol University lab for tests to find more cases of the feline form of mad cow disease.
Private lab tests returned Monday showed likely salmonella contamination at the plant, which opened in March 2005.
In his lab, a stream of students and local people of all shapes and sizes undergo tests.
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The arrest came after Mullen looked at FedEx delivery records, commissioned lab tests confirming the presence of silicone and confirmed that Castillo was not licensed as a medical professional in New York State.
She started in 1946 as a receptionist in the lab, where she helped out by catheterizing male frogs to get the urine specimens used in pregnancy tests at the time.
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