Tag: drug discovery
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Click-y LEGO® Chemistry!
When it comes to the natural world, humanity has extreme difficulty imitating organic processes. From spider silk to bird flight, natural processes, while understood, can be near impossible to produce with human technology. The generation of organic molecules remained such a struggle, up until the foundational development of bioorthogonal click chemistry: a class of simple,…
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The Root of Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic resistance is becoming a more and more prevalent issue in healthcare, where relatively simple infections can no longer be treated and may end in death. Major healthcare facilities such as hospitals will become central locations of transmission and infection, instead of a place to heal. Based on a report by the CDC Antibiotic Resistance…