"It's a great opportunity, the pathway's there but we've just got to go out and do the business on the pitch now".
The announcement put Cell Pathway's stock into free fall yesterday, with the shares losing two-thirds of their value.
Pathway's test scans an individual's DNA to provide information on the person's risk of getting about two dozen diseases.
I must admit that I initially find DecodeMe's personal results website a bit more confusing than Pathway's.
Although broader in scope, Pathway's test is not the first DNA-based analysis to be sold in drug stores.
What Walgreens will be selling, for a price expected to be $20 to $30, is Pathway's saliva collection kit, packaged in a box that says "Discover Your DNA".
But they would still have to go to Pathway's Web site to order the specific test they want and pay an additional fee.
Alex Bax, the chief executive, says women represent about a fifth of Pathway's clients and are "often the most unwell and in an extremely poor position".
In a letter to Pathway that was written Monday but made public late Wednesday, the agency suggested that Pathway's test needed regulatory approval before it could be sold.
The drugs work by blocking two of the pathway's enzymes, COX-1 and COX-2.
Many of the pathway's remarkable sensing and signaling properties are now concisely summarized in terms of design (or engineering) principles.
