Audio long read: ‘Almost magical’ — chemists can now move single atoms in and out of a molecule’s core
Nature Podcast
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Chemists can now precisely edit a molecule by deleting, adding or swapping single atoms in its core. This sort of molecular surgery could dramatically speed up drug discovery and might altogether revolutionize how organic chemists design molecules. In the past two years, more than 100 papers on the technique known as skeletal editing have been published.
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