LEXICON
No.132 June 4, 2013

Drug discovery
創薬
Research and development
研究開発
Drug rearing; drug fostering; post-marketing drug development
育薬

The entire process through which a substance (物質) is developed into a drug (医薬品) and launched after regulatory approval (承認) is called drug discovery (創薬). A huge number of new substances are discovered or created not only by conventional methods...

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