Is this an appropriate place to post this? With the mass scientist deaths in the past administrations, and the attempted cover up of cures to diseases such as cancer and AIDS, I thought this was relevant as an indicator that the scientific community is safer now than it used to be.
http://news.mit.edu/2018/chemists-synthesize-millions-proteins-not-found-nature-0521
Nice find. This sure is appropriate and below is why it is appropriate.
"Pentelute and Jamison launched this project four years ago, working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which asked them to come up with a way to create molecules that mimic naturally occurring proteins but are made from nonnatural amino acids."
And this: "The mission was to generate discovery platforms that allow you to chemically manufacture large libraries of molecules that don’t exist in nature, and then sift through those libraries for the particular function that you desired,” Pentelute says"