Searching for a cure
How the pharmaceutical industry finds new medicines
Where do new medicines come from? Modern medicine has come a long way from the herbs and other plants that our ancestors relied on. Whether they are small molecule drugs or large biologics, such as genetically-engineered proteins, the medicines we take are almost all chemicals that have been invented by chemists.
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