Do you know of anything new in the *works*? -- What does WORKS mean?

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Josh Fischman: Yep. There are not a lot of approved drug options for COVID. It’s been a year, and we’ve got the drug remdesivir and two forms of monoclonal antibodies to slow down the virus in your body. They work a bit, but the effects are not major. And there’s the steroid dexamethasone, which helps hospitalized patients who need oxygen or are on ventilators. There’s not a lot else in the medicine cabinet.

Tanya Lewis: "Do you know of anything new in the works?"

What does the word works mean here? Does it mean something like medicine factories?
Or it means all of the medicines that are still in the process of making?

This sentence is from the article. (And I put its previous transcript above for you to know the context.)

 

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Did you Google the phrase "in the works" before asking us? It would have taken you about five seconds. I Googled "What does in the works mean?" and got plenty of clear definitions. Here's one of them.