Artificial cell membranes that can speed up drug discovery
Monday, January 20, 2014 - 08:00
in Physics & Chemistry
ACM Biolabs, a spin-off company from A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), will market novel plastic cell membranes to be used as low-cost, easily maintained drug targets that help shorten the drug discovery process. What usually takes weeks or even months can now be done in a matter of days using these new materials. Combined with a robust scalability to large scale quantities, ACM's artificial cell membranes may cut costs in the initial phase of drug discovery by up to two-thirds.