It’s been 96 days since my last post, roughly the period since the new revolution in U.S. health policies. I won’t make excuses. Ironically, since before any of this started, I’ve been trying to find a literary agent for my debut novel (upmarket thriller) about a race-to-the-cure for a pandemic, by a drug developer who …
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Bacteria as Drug Factories
If organic chemistry had an Olympic event, it would involve finding the easiest way to synthesize natural drugs. Some routes have 30 or 40 steps, and the yields are horrendous because of side reactions all along the way. Various chemists have become organic rock stars by streamlining a synthesis to only a dozen or so …
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