Eroom’s Law, the grim corollary to Moore’s Law, paints a concerning picture for the pharmaceutical industry. Drug discovery is becoming a labyrinth – increasingly expensive and time-consuming despite technological advancements. The inflationadjusted cost of developing a new drug roughly doubles every nine years. In order to highlight the contrast with the exponential advancements of other forms of technology such as transistors over time, the name given to the observation is Moore’s Law spelled backwards.
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