Machine builds druglike organic molecules in a snap

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Machine builds druglike organic molecules in a snap

[Rowan]

So its autistic

[silverstudent]

This is amazing on a small scale RnD level however it’s just the beginning of actual pharmaceutical drug development. There’s a few directions this can go. At this point I can search for a mimic of any molecule in the chemical space of 100’s of millions of molecules.

[anon64373531]

Combinatorial chemistry has been around industry for a long time. One guy on my graduate committee had a robot that filled an entire room. It used ultrasound to levitate microliter droplets of reagents to avoid contamination and transport them on a cushion of soundwaves between the reservoir and the ‘reaction pot’. They’d do thousands of reactions a day to track down drug candidates. “High Throughput Screening” is the technical term.

[thesk8nmidget]

@anon64373531

It used ultrasound to levitate microliter droplets of reagents to avoid contamination and transport them on a cushion of soundwaves between the reservoir and the ‘reaction pot’.

Woah!! This just blow my mind!! i wanna know more and see more!! any more info you can share or links?

[anon64373531]

This looks like an updated version

High-Performance Ultrasonic Levitation with FPGA-based Phased Arrays

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@anon64373531

used ultrasound to levitate microliter droplets of reagents to avoid contamination and transport them on a cushion of soundwaves

Sounds like a new hash making technique.