4.At a time when it is hard to raise new capital, the firm has decided to concentrate on anticancer therapies that, it hopes, are nearer to being commercial propositions than the stem-cell study is.
时下募集新资金相当苦难,该公司决定集中力量研究癌症治疗,因为他们认为癌症治疗比干细胞研究更有商业价值。