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Global advances in synthetic biology

Drug Discovery World

“This study is an example of computational biology, genetic sequencing, and synthetic chemistry coming together to unlock the secrets of bacterial evolution.” . Antibiotic drug discovery once largely consisted of scientists growing streptomyces or bacillus in the lab and bottling their secrets to treat human disease. .

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Following our pole star to a transformative collaboration

Dark Matter Blog

And as we’ve launched several internal discovery programs, we are learning the rules of molecular recognition for RNA; yes, the fundamental physical constants are the same, but RNA has mixed them up in fascinating, even wacky, ways; principles that feel hard-wired for protein targets just don’t hold for RNA.

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