Lessons from the Fersht laboratory could be vital for the future of the pharmaceutical industry.
For several decades, the Fersht laboratory has been a world leader in research on protein structure and mechanism. There are pressing medical and financial needs for new medicines. Here, I use examples to illustrate how drug discovery could be more successful if it increased utilisation of approaches from the Fersht laboratory.
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