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Re-Imagining Med Chem Strategies: the Tyranny of the n+1 Compound

DrugBaron

Finding small molecule drugs is much harder than finding a needle in a haystack – discovering the right arrangement of atoms to bind precisely to a protein target to elicit a particular response is a problem of vast dimensionality. Yet the situation with small molecules is even worse.

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Global advances in synthetic biology

Drug Discovery World

These factors can significantly contribute to the growth of the synthetic biology market, it adds. . It is believed that the term synthetic biology was created in 1970 by geneticist, Waclaw Szybalski 1 as work was being carried out on the development of DNA sequencing and synthesis techniques.