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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.
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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.
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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.
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