{"id":137718,"date":"2022-04-04T22:03:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T03:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-million-times-faster-dna-nanotechnology-could-speed-up-pharmaceutical-development-while-minimizing-costs"},"modified":"2022-04-04T22:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T03:03:51","slug":"a-million-times-faster-dna-nanotechnology-could-speed-up-pharmaceutical-development-while-minimizing-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-million-times-faster-dna-nanotechnology-could-speed-up-pharmaceutical-development-while-minimizing-costs","title":{"rendered":"A million times faster: DNA nanotechnology could speed up pharmaceutical development while minimizing costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-million-times-faster-dna-nanotechnology-could-speed-up-pharmaceutical-development-while-minimizing-costs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new tool speeds up development of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products by more than 1 million times while minimizing costs.<\/p>\n<p>In search of pharmaceutical agents such as new vaccines, industry will routinely scan thousands of related candidate molecules. A novel technique allows this to take place on the nano scale, minimizing use of materials and energy. The work is published in the journal Nature Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>More than 40,000 molecules can be synthesized and analyzed within an area smaller than a pinhead. The method, developed through a highly interdisciplinary research effort in Denmark, promises to drastically reduce the amounts of material, energy, and economic cost for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/pharmaceutical+companies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pharmaceutical companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new tool speeds up development of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products by more than 1 million times while minimizing costs. In search of pharmaceutical agents such as new vaccines, industry will routinely scan thousands of related candidate molecules. A novel technique allows this to take place on the nano scale, minimizing use of materials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,39,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-economics","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}