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How We Can Do Better Drug Discovery | Jack Scannell

The DeSci Podcast

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Antimicrobials

Natural products evolve to traverse cell membranes so a lot of antibiotics are derived from other microbes because it's chemical warfare out there. Almost all of the compounds that extend healthy lifespan across species or natural products or derivatives thereof I don't think that's an accident interesting. pharma at the time still is primarily enriched in chemists rather than biologists and yet when it comes to cells or or mice it doesn't work, he says.

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