In spite of increasing demand, the number of newly developed drugs decreased continuously in the past decades. The search for new active substances, their production, characterization, and screening for biological effectiveness are very complex and costly. One of the reasons is that all three steps have been carried out separately so far. Scientists have now succeeded in combining these processes on a chip and, hence, facilitating and accelerating the procedures to produce promising substances.
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Source: ScienceDaily