Bücher der Reihe Drug Discovery Series

Describes the tools available for performing various assay techniques. This book presents descriptions of methods, laboratory guidelines and protocols used to perform such methods, specific examples of each assay system and troubleshooting tools. It describes biochemical assay classes and non-class specific assay development for cell-based assays.

The pharmaceutical industry suffers from an innovation deficit, with clinical attrition and safety-related market-withdrawal rates at the same level as twenty years ago. This book scrutinizes this problem in detail, contrasting the promise of technology and industrialization with the apparent inability of industry to fully realize the tools that ar