{"id":157430,"date":"2023-02-09T05:01:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T11:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-discovery-dramatically-reduces-time-it-takes-to-build-molecules"},"modified":"2023-02-09T05:01:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T11:01:11","slug":"new-discovery-dramatically-reduces-time-it-takes-to-build-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-discovery-dramatically-reduces-time-it-takes-to-build-molecules","title":{"rendered":"New discovery dramatically reduces time it takes to build molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-discovery-dramatically-reduces-time-it-takes-to-build-molecules.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With a big assist from artificial intelligence and a heavy dose of human touch, Tim Cernak\u2019s lab at the University of Michigan has made a discovery that dramatically speeds up the time-consuming chemical process of building molecules that will be tomorrow\u2019s medicines, agrichemicals or materials.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, published in the Feb. 3 issue of <i>Science<\/i>, is the culmination of years of chemical synthesis and data science research by the Cernak Lab in the College of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the research was to identify key reactions in the synthesis of a molecule, ultimately reducing the process to as few steps as possible. In the end, Cernak and his team achieved the synthesis of a complex alkaloid found in nature in just three steps. Previous syntheses had taken between seven and 26 steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a big assist from artificial intelligence and a heavy dose of human touch, Tim Cernak\u2019s lab at the University of Michigan has made a discovery that dramatically speeds up the time-consuming chemical process of building molecules that will be tomorrow\u2019s medicines, agrichemicals or materials. The discovery, published in the Feb. 3 issue of Science, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157430","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}