New Algorithm Speeds the Hunt for Nature-Derived Antibiotics and Cancer Drugs

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 18:21 in Health & Medicine

Last week, Scientific American reported on the decline of nature-derived compounds in the pharmaceutical pipeline, in part because of the cost of isolating and identifying compounds that may have already been described and are therefore not patentable. [More]

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