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Published April 25, 1991 | public
Journal Article

Light on molecular recognition

Abstract

Writing in Science, Fodor et al. describe an exciting strategy for the light-directed, spatially addressable parallel synthesis of a large number of chemically related yet distinct species on a glass surface - thus producing molecular diversity through combinatorial chemical synthesis. The technique provides a fresh way of tackling one of the fundamental problems of modern biology, namely molecular recognition, or how nucleic acids and proteins interact in a highly specific manner.

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© 1991 Nature Publishing Group.

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