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Drug Repurposing Hypothesis Generation Using the "RE:fine Drugs" System
Published on: December 11, 2016
[Serendipity and pharmaceutical research]
1Faculté de pharmacie, Toulouse.
Abstract:
So far as pharmaceutical research in concerned, serendipity plays a significant part even in the genesis of rigorous research. Quite often, scientific discoveries occur by chance, without searching anything or when searching something else. Unforseen discoveries win the medicines of the central nervous system, as well as the side effects of some medicines which received then new indications. Aspirin, iproniazide, reserpine, phenothiazine... Serendipity played its part in drug discovery as well as in any human activity.
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