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Biology may provide just the right chemistry for new drugs

Natural enzymes and microbes suggested as cure for ailing pharmaceutical industry

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DRUG SOURCE  Tapping natural enzymes and engineered microbes may help chemists find and make new drugs, such as a version of this complicated anticancer drug called paclitaxel. 

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By Beth Mole

- More than 2 years ago

NORTH BETHESDA, Md. — Chemists are struggling to develop new drugs these days — and biologists may have just the pill for that.