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Others — often referred to as “me too” drugs — are chemically or mechanistically similar to existing therapies, designed to compete within established categories rather than to open new frontiers.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

The researchers demonstrated that MYC's ability to promote tumor growth and its ability to suppress immune detection are mechanistically separate processes.

From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2026

Nath, who also studies ME/CFS, says that “we think mechanistically they are going to be related.”

From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2023

“The sun is a trigger for, mechanistically, causing damage to skin cells of various types that lead to different types of skin cancer,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2022

No wonder that none of these theories has proved really satisfactory even to mechanistically orientated thinking.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst