Drug discovery is a daunting process that requires chemists to sift through millions of chemicals to find a single hit. DNA technology can dramatically speed up the search.
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Mullard, A. DNA tags help the hunt for drugs. Nature 530, 367–369 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/530367a
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