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Description: A chemist who pioneered a technique that constructs complex molecules from simple chemical "building blocks," led a group that found that thousands of compounds in a class of molecules called polyenes-- many of which have great potential as drugs-- can be built simply and economically from a scant one dozen different building blocks.
Source: Univ. of Illinois
Read more: laboratoryequipment.com/videos/2014/05/twelve-simple-building-blocks-key-better-drugs
Description: A chemist who pioneered a technique that constructs complex molecules from simple chemical "building blocks," led a group that found that thousands of compounds in a class of molecules called polyenes-- many of which have great potential as drugs-- can be built simply and economically from a scant one dozen different building blocks.
Source: Univ. of Illinois
Read more: laboratoryequipment.com/videos/2014/05/twelve-simple-building-blocks-key-better-drugs
