October 2001
Speeding Drug Discovery
It takes years and millions to get a new drug to market. New techniques might burrow through the mountain of genome data and break the bottleneck.
By Gary Taubes
The Woodlands, about 40 kilometers north of downtown Houston, is one of those planned communities that endeavors to provide virtually anything its residents might desire in an idyllic suburban setting. Among the Woodlands' five villages are bike paths and hiking trails, parks and golf courses, a shopping mall of Lone-Star-State proportions and an arts pavilion, not to mention a hospital, schools-and what may be the world's single largest genetically-engineered-mouse facility.
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