11.   The two companies are furthest along in developing new psoriasis treatments among more than a dozen other drug developers.

12.   This double-vaccine approach is furthest along of the various HIV vaccine strategies on the drawing boards, Mayer said.

13.   Vote counting was furthest along in the far east, where economic dislocation from dismantling of the old communist system is widespread.

14.   While several other companies such as Motorola Inc. and Celera Genomics said they plan on developing DNA microarrays, Corning is furthest along in challenging Affymetrix.

15.   Work is furthest along on an artificial pancreas to treat diabetes.

16.   Opponents also have criticized Johnson and Johnson, which is the furthest along in the approval process.

17.   The drug is the furthest along of a new class of AIDS medicines called fusion inhibitors.

18.   The United States and China are believed to be the furthest along in developing laser weapons.