Following the announcement that British researchers working for PPL Therapeutics had cloned a sheep and the marketing of Viagra by the Swedish firm Pfizer, the stock price of Entremed, a previously unknown pharmaceutical firm, recently tripled in one day after it announced that it had developed a new anti-cancer drug. Thought to have high growth potential, biotechnology stocks have become star performers.
繼英國研發複製羊桃莉的 PPL 及輝瑞藥廠推出威而鋼之後，近來又有一家名不見經傳的 EntreMed 藥廠，因為研發出抗癌新藥，使得股票幾乎以一日三倍跳漲，生物技術股也成了「錢景」在望的明星產業。