{"id":7605,"date":"2017-03-27T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=7605"},"modified":"2017-03-27T11:15:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:15:28","slug":"building-molecules-and-drug-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/building-molecules-and-drug-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Molecules and Drug Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uctv.tv\/shows\/Saturday-Science-at-Scripps-Research-The-Nuts-and-Bolts-of-Building-Molecules-with-Keary-Engle-31436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/default\/31436.jpg\" alt=\"8232\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Contrary to what you may think &#8211; or perhaps remember from school &#8211; \u201cO Chem\u201d, or organic chemistry, is really deceptively simple in principle, and The Scripps Research Institute\u2019s Keary Engle takes you on a thorough exploration of how the initial simplicity of \u201cO Chem\u201d can be exploited to great use in drug discovery.<\/p>\n<p>From a simple understanding of how carbon atoms make bonds, Keary reveals the \u201clanguage\u201d of chemical structure and formulas and how he and his lab ultimately use this to create new substances to speed the creation of more novel molecules for therapeutic uses.  <\/p>\n<p>Watch: <a href=\"http:\/\/uctv.tv\/shows\/Saturday-Science-at-Scripps-Research-The-Nuts-and-Bolts-of-Building-Molecules-with-Keary-Engle-31436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday Science at Scripps Research: The Nuts and Bolts of Building Molecules with Keary Engle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to what you may think &#8211; or perhaps remember from school &#8211; \u201cO Chem\u201d, or organic chemistry, is really deceptively simple in principle, and The Scripps Research Institute\u2019s Keary Engle takes you on a thorough exploration of how the initial simplicity of \u201cO Chem\u201d can be exploited to great use in drug discovery. From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}