1.   Approval is by no means certain, despite two rounds of late-stage clinical tests that appear to demonstrate the Serono drug works.

2.   Clinical tests have shown this frequency gives the best balance between thorough cleaning and personal comfort.

3.   Some limited laboratory and clinical tests undertaken at Bayer led to the belief that it was slightly too toxic to be acceptable.

4.   The level of lesions was determined by detailed clinical neurological tests.

5.   Biogen maintains Avonex is significantly different, citing its clinical test studies.

6.   Biochem and Glaxo are also running clinical tests on Lamivudine, a drug that may cure hepatitis B.

7.   But regulations mandate that copies of biologics undergo the same battery of clinical tests required of new drugs, driving up costs and defeating the purpose of making generics.

8.   Chiron has already begun the final stages of clinical tests on Proleukin for U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of the drug as an AIDS remedy.

9.   Clinical tests on humans are at least five years away, he said.