Modern Drug Discovery

May 2002
Volume 5, No. 5

Focus: High-Throughput Screening

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The matching game Randall C. Willis Protein-based biochips are making strides in proteomics and diagnostics.
Adding that “spoonful of sugar”—and more Christen L. Brownlee Hundreds of pharmaceutical excipients help the medicine go down—but some can cause serious problems for patients.

DEPARTMENTS

Content in Context
Blockbuster efficiency

News in Brief: • Anti-acne; • Risky rides; • Glucose sensing; • From pipets to mass spec; • Learning to learn again; • Medicinal marijuana not tops; • For whom the cells toll; • A closer look at cells

For Your Health
When peanuts are poison

Clinical Trials Track
Clinician-initiated trials

Matters of Money
For European travels, check your VAT

The Time Line
Apostles of cleanliness

The Tool Box
A binding proposition

Patents and Property
Infringement for the public good?

Sites and Software
Neural networks to the rescue

Ready to Read: • Ether Day
The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It; • The World of Caffeine
The Science and Culture of the World’s Most Popular Drug

Corbis

On the Calendar
HPLC 2002

Diseases and Disorders
Munchausen's syndrome

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