New drugs faster from natural compounds: A UC San Diego breakthrough

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 12:49 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have invented computational tools to decode and rapidly determine whether natural compounds collected in oceans and forests are new -- or if these pharmaceutically promising compounds have already been described and are therefore not patentable.

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