• Question: Did any of your mixtures of chemicals work?

    Asked by anon-256508 to James_the_Scientist on 12 Jun 2020.
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      James Beswick answered on 12 Jun 2020:


      Yep! The molecules I have made by mixing different chemicals together are now being used by biologists to learn more about certain diseases where something called ‘inflammation’ can make things worse. Some inflammation in our body is a good thing, but too much can cause problems. None of my molecules are being sold as medicines – it can take over 10 years and cost over $1,000,000,000 to develop a new successful medicine (which I think is a good excuse for me…)

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