the very early stages of doing your assay development and your testing, you're not going to have to wait 13 years until you've brought a drug to market, only to find out that actually it doesn't work, or even worse, harms people.
从检测的非常早期的阶段就能知道结果， 不会出现等了13年， 终于将一种药物推向市场，结果却发现 这种药物根本没用，甚至对人体有害的情况。