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Click and bio-orthogonal chemistry take Nobel Prize 2022

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Click chemistry refers to molecular building blocks snapping together quickly and efficiently, and its development responded to the need to for pharmaceutical researchers to build increasingly complicated molecules. This is Barry Sharpless’ second Nobel Prize in Chemistry – the first was in 2001 for chiral catalysts.

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Trump’s lie on drug prices

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Novo Nordisk, for example, raised the price of its widely used Novolog insulin 353 percent from its introduction in 2001 to 2016. March-in rights under Bayh-Dole have never been invoked, no doubt because the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, has made clear that it would litigate.