http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/%e2%80%98chemical-brain%e2%80%99-knows-every-reaction/ Research news from leading universities Mon, 20 May 2013 04:24:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/%e2%80%98chemical-brain%e2%80%99-knows-every-reaction/comment-page-1/#comment-100732 Nicasius Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:03:32 +0000 http://www.futurity.org/?p=117392#comment-100732 While I must laud the authors for a wondrous step forward in the rather obsessive tendency of organic chemists to generate more and more drugs to test the human capacity to metabolise them, the section on dealing with geniuses who are terrorists as well illustrates another tendency of research scientists to justify their somewhat empowering research with spurious possible applications. What price the one-pot reaction vessel called the living cell? Can ya FORTRAN it? While I must laud the authors for a wondrous step forward in the rather obsessive tendency of organic chemists to generate more and more drugs to test the human capacity to metabolise them, the section on dealing with geniuses who are terrorists as well illustrates another tendency of research scientists to justify their somewhat empowering research with spurious possible applications. What price the one-pot reaction vessel called the living cell? Can ya FORTRAN it?

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