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Drug screening—beyond the bottleneck

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High-throughput screening still has a long way to go if it is to achieve its often-touted potential.

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Dove, A. Drug screening—beyond the bottleneck. Nat Biotechnol 17, 859–863 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/12845

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