In the old days, before molecular biology, back when “poke” was something a pig might be in, drugs were reportedly discovered by phenotypic screening, a laborious process in which you try to figure out what a compound does by looking at the effect on cells or organisms. This was relatively slow, and you didn’t always [...] Read More...
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