1.   This may be useful when test compounds are being developed and their production in large amounts is difficult and expensive.

2.   Scotia is developing compounds which attack cancer in three ways.

3.   And Bristol-Myers Squibb is developing a compound that will eliminate or fade sunspots.

4.   But Hitchings and Dr. Elion developed compounds for specific diseases, testing them in vitro, and in animals, then watching for unexpected results.

5.   Earlier this year, Baxter International Corp. pulled out of a similar arrangement to develop another compound.

6.   Gilead and Hoffman-La Roche, the pharmaceutical company, plan to develop the compound as an oral drug.

7.   Genome Therapeutics Corp. and a subsidiary of Sepracor Inc. Monday said they signed a collaborative agreement to jointly research and develop drug compounds to treat bacterial infections.

8.   It could allow a scientist to develop a compound that could interfere with the expression of a cancerous gene.

9.   Neurogen may have to develop other compounds to treat schizophrenia because of the results, officials said.

10.   The company developed the compound into a drug called Aptosyn.