Word: vertex
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...speed the discovery of drugs that attack their targets without poisoning those who take them, many biotech firms rely on design rather than serendipity. Vertex Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge, Mass., has halved, to 18 months, the time it takes to discover candidate drugs and is today among the most prolific generators of leads...
Above them five tied-together bedsheets dangled from the balcony railing. Behind, a big wooden table had been pounded into an obtuse angle with sneaker marks at the vertex. John Quincy Adams watched without judgment from his invisible, alarmed cage...