New Molecular 3D Printer Can Create Billions of Compounds

ErnieKey writes: University of Illinois researchers have created a device, called a Molecular-Machine, which essentially manufactures on the molecular compound level. Martin Burke, the lead researcher on this project says that they are already able to synthesize over a billion different compounds with the machine, compounds which up until now have been very difficult to synthesize. The impact on the pharmaceutical industry could be staggering.

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Re:The impact on the pharmaceutical industry

[fustakrakich]

Oh dear! Somebody might lose their vacation house in the Hamptons! What, do you think nobody will fill in the hole? You don't see opportunity where there was none? What is wrong with prying the market open?