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Editorial

Nature Biotechnology 26, 137 (1 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/nbt0208-137

Raising the game

This decade has been a disappointment in terms of the number of drugs approved each year by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). But 2007 will go down in history as the worst for 25 years, with only 19 new molecular entities (NMEs) registered for marketing.