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My Ph.D. supervisor just won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing a safer, cheaper and faster way to build molecules and make medicine

  • Written by David Nagib, Associate Professor of Chemistry, The Ohio State University
imageMany catalysts currently used to make many drugs are expensive and can produce toxic byproducts. Westend61 via Getty Images

The reason that ibuprofen treats headaches and ice cream tastes sweet is that their chemical components fit perfectly into certain receptors in your body. The better a drug or flavor molecule fits with its matching receptor,...

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