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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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Following our pole star to a transformative collaboration

Dark Matter Blog

Our Chinese CROs are back online and doing synthetic chemistry at a pre-pandemic pace. Our ambition was to unlock vast swaths of valuable biology inaccessible to medicine today because the proteins involved elude our reach. The good news is that plenty of work can continue even with our own lab dormant.

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